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ELAH (‘terebinth’).—A valley in the Shephçlah, the scene of the battle between David and Goliath (1Sam 17, 21:9). It is most likely the modern Wady es-Sunt, which, rising in the mountains about Jeba, about 11 miles due S.W. of Jerusalem, runs westward, under various names, till it opens on the Maritime Plain at Tell es-Safi. In the middle of the valley is a watercourse which runs in winter only; the bottom is full of small stones such as David might have selected for his sling.
R. A. S. Macalister.