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Salcah, Or Salchah

(migration), a city named in the early records of Israel as the extreme limit of Bashan, (3:10; Joshua 13:11) and of the tribe of Gad. (1 Chronicles 5:71) On another occasion the name seems to denote a district rather than a town. (Joshua 12:5) It is identical with the town of Sulkhad (56 miles east of the Jordan, at the southern extremity of the Hauran range of mountains. The place is nearly deserted, though it contains 800 stone houses, many of them in a good state of preservation.-ED.)

In the Bible

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Verses where Salcah, Or Salchah is named. Berean Standard Bible (public domain).

  • 1 Chronicles 5:11

    The descendants of Gad lived next to the Reubenites in the land of Bashan, as far as Salecah:

  • Deuteronomy 3:10

    all the cities of the plateau, all of Gilead, and all of Bashan as far as the cities of Salecah and Edrei in the kingdom of Og.

  • Joshua 12:5

    He ruled over Mount Hermon, Salecah, all of Bashan up to the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and half of Gilead to the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.

  • Joshua 13:11

    also Gilead and the territory of the Geshurites and Maacathites, all of Mount Hermon, and all Bashan as far as Salecah—

Scripture on Salcah, Or Salchah

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Sources · Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884)

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