Salbit

Template:Infobox Former Arab villages in Palestine Salbit (Arabic: سلبيت) was a Palestinian Arab village located Template:Km to mi southeast of al-Ramla. It has been identified with the biblical town of Shaalabbin (also, Shaalbim) which was located Template:Mi to km northwest of biblical Aijalon (modern day Yalo).

Biblical references

Shaalabbin is mentioned in the Book of Joshua (19:42) as a city of the southern Dan and in the Septuagint (LXX) as one of the cities in which the Amorites continued to dwell after the conquest of Canaan by the Israelites. The name admits to no Hebrew derivation and may be a survival of a form of pre-Canaanite speech. Shaalbim is also mentioned in the Book of Kings (4:8) as an area under the administration of Ben-Deker, one of twelve officers who is said to have paid tribute to King Solomon.

Extrabiblical references

Jerome also describes it as part of the territory of the Dan, transcribing its name at that time as Selebi, a form also used by Josephus.

Bibliography

• Barnes, William Emery, The First Book of the Kings, CUP Archive
• Cooke, George Albert (2008), The Book of Joshua, BiblioBazaar, LLC, ISBN 055470207X, 9780554702070 {{citation}}: Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help)
• Morris, Benny (2004), The birth of the Palestinian refugee problem revisited (2nd, illustrated, revised ed.), Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521009677, 9780521009676 {{citation}}: Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help)
• Robinson, Edward; Smith, Eli, Biblical Researches in Palestine, Mount Sinai and Arabia Petr a. A Journal of Travels in the Year 1838. Volume 3, Adamant Media Corporation, ISBN 1402131267, 9781402131264 {{citation}}: Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help)
• Smith, William (1857), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography: Iabadius-Zymethus, vol. v. 2, Little, Brown and Co.
• Taylor, Joan E. (1993), Christians and the holy places: the myth of Jewish-Christian origins (Illustrated ed.), Oxford University Press, ISBN 0198147856, 9780198147855 {{citation}}: Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help)