Bible Location

Elealeh

Meaning: burnt-offering of God · 5 cross references · Modern-day map available

Elealeh was a town on the high plateau east of the Jordan near Heshbon. It is important because it appears in Reubenite settlement traditions and later in prophetic laments over Moab. First appears in Num 32:3.1

Place meaning

burnt-offering of God

Coordinates

31.81, 35.82

First appears

Num 32:3

AI summary: Elealeh's role spans both settlement and sorrow. In Numbers it belongs to the network of towns taken and built in the transjordanian inheritance, showing its place in Israel's early occupation of the plateau. Centuries later Isaiah and Jeremiah name Elealeh in oracles over Moab, which means the town had become part of the deeply contested eastern landscape between Israelite and Moabite control. The cross references present Elealeh as a plateau town remembered both for possession and for lament.1

Place meaning

burnt-offering of God

Latitude

31.81

Longitude

35.82

Bible references

5