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Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography/Baal-shalisha

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2673025Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography — Baal-shalisha1857William Smith (1813-1893)

BAAL-SHALISHA (2 Kings, iv. 42), a town, it would seem, of the district of Shalisha (1 Sam. ix. 4), called by Eusebius and St. Jerome Beth-sa-lisa, is placed by them 15 miles north of Diospolis (Lydda), in the Thammitic district. (Reland, p. 611.)[ G. W. ]