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zik´lag (צקלג, cikÌ£elagh, צקלג, cikÌ£elaÌ„gh (), ציקלג, cı̄kÌ£elagh (, ); usually in the Septuagint ΣεκελαÌκ, SekelaÌk, or ΣικελαÌγ, SikelaÌg): A town assigned (; ) to Simeon, but in named, between Hornah and Madmannah, as one of the cities of the Negeb of Judah, “toward the border of Edom.†It is said () to have remained a royal city. In it is in the list of towns reinhabited by the returning children of Judah. Its chief associations are with David. Achish the Philistine king of Gath gave it to David as a residence ( f; , ); it was raided by the Amalekites, on whom David took vengeance and so recovered his property (, ); here the messenger who came to announce Saul's death was slain (; ).
The site of this important place is not yet fixed with certainty; Conder proposed Zucheilı̄ka, a ruin 11 miles South-Southeast of Gaza, and 4 miles North of Wâdy es-Sherı̄‛ă, which may be the “Brook Besor†(, , ); Rowland (1842) proposed ‛Aslūj, a heap of ruins South of Beersheba and 7 miles to the East of Bered. Neither site is entirely satisfactory. See Williams, Holy City, I, 463-68; BR, II, 201, PEF, 288, Sh XX.