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The Shephelah is the low hill country between Judah's central highlands and the Philistine plain. It is important because it formed Judah's western agricultural and military frontier, where fertile land, key towns, and repeated conflicts met. First appears in 1 Kgs 10:27.1
AI summary: The Shephelah matters because it is one of the Bible's most strategic landscapes rather than a single settlement. It was the transitional zone between the hill country and the coast, so it repeatedly carried the pressure of invasion, farming, settlement, and defense. References in Kings and Chronicles show its agricultural value and its role in royal administration, while its wider biblical context makes it the setting of many Judah-Philistia confrontations. The cross references present the Shephelah as the western lowland belt where Judah's prosperity and vulnerability were both clearly visible.1
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Figure1: A table of cross references between the selected passage and other passages (Data from Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.)
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, place metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.