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| == Smith's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_73734" /> ==
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| <p> '''Mol'adah.''' ''(Birth, Race).'' A city of Judah, one of those which lay in the district of "the south." Joshua 15:26; Joshua 19:2, In the latter tribe, it remained at any rate, till the reign of David, 1 Chronicles 4:28, but by the time of the captivity, it seems to have come back into the hands of Judah, by whom it was reinhabited after the captivity. Nehemiah 11:26. It may be placed at ''El-Milh'' , which is about 4 English miles from ''Tell Arad'' , 17 or 18 English miles from Hebron, and 9 or 10 English miles due east of Beersheba. </p> | | Moladah <ref name="term_51127" /> |
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| | <p> Khurbet el-Milh, the probable representative of this locality, is seven miles and three quarters southwest of Tell Araad, and thirteen and a quarter, east of Beersheba. It is briefly described in the Memoirs accompanying the Ordnance Survey ( 3: 415), and more fully by Tristram, Bible Places (page 19 ), as follows: </p> <p> " The two wells are in the shallow valley, very finely built of marble, about seventy feet deep, their sides scored with the ropes of the water-drawers of many centuries. The ground around is strewn with records of the Roman occupation. [[ Fragments]] of shafts and capitals, probably the support of roofs that covered the wells, and eight large marble water-troughs, lie around the mouths. There are traces of pavement. Just to the south of the wells stands a small isolated 'tell' or hill, covered with ruins, and now used as a burying- ground of the Dhunlam tribe. This hill was the fortress of the city below, spoken of by Josephus; and we could : clearly trace the circuit of the wall that once surrounded it, nearly square in shape, and still in places three or four feet high. The traces of buildings and fragments of walls cover an extensive area both south and north of the citadel: and near its foot, on the south- east, are the outlines of a building, probably a Byzantine church. The other ruins seem to belong to an earlier and ruder period, and are perhaps the remains of the town of Simeon. " </p> |
| == Fausset's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_36603" /> ==
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| <p> A city in southern Judah, next [[Edom]] ( Joshua 15:26), given to [[Simeon]] ( Joshua 19:2; 1 Chronicles 4:28). It reverted to Judah after the captivity ( Nehemiah 11:25-26). Now ''Khirbet [[El]] Milh'' , a ruin with two wells, one dry, the other with water at a depth of more than 40 ft. On the road from [[Petra]] to Hebron, ten miles E. of Beersheba. </p>
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| == Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_52808" /> ==
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| <p> <strong> [[Moladah]] </strong> A city reckoned to Judah in Joshua 15:26 , and to Simeon in Joshua 19 :2 , 1 Chronicles 4: 28 . It is in no way related to <em> Tell el-Milh </em> , ‘hill of salt,’ with which Robinson and others have identified it. Probably it lay near Beersheba, but the site has not been recovered. </p> <p> W. Ewing. </p> | |
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| == Morrish Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_67455" /> ==
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| <p> City in the south of Judah: it was inhabited on the return from exile. Joshua 15:26; Joshua 19:2; 1 Chronicles 4:28; Nehemiah 11:26 . Identified by some with the ruins at <i> Tell el Milh, </i> 31 13' N, 35 1' E . </p>
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| == Holman Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_42550" /> ==
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| Joshua 15:26 Joshua 19:2 1 Samuel 27:10 1 Chronicles 2:29 Nehemiah 11:26
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| == Easton's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_32576" /> ==
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| Joshua 15:21-26 19:2
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| == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_51135" /> ==
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| <p> (Heb. Moladah', '''''מוֹלָדָה''''' [in Nehemiah '', '''''מֹלָדָה''''' '' ], ''Birth;'' Sept. '''''Μωλαδά''''' v.r. '''''Μωδαδά''''' , etc.), a city in the southern part of the tribe of Judah towards the Edomitish border ( Joshua 15:26), which fell within the portion set off to Simeon ( Joshua 19:2; 1 Chronicles 4:28). It was also occupied after the exile ( Nehemiah 11:26). Reland ''(Palaest.'' page 901) thinks it was the Malatha ( '''''Μάλαθα''''' ) mentioned by [[Josephus]] ''(Ant.'' 18:6, 2) as a castle of Idurmaea, to which [[Agrippa]] retired in chagrin after his return from Rome. [[Eusebius]] and [[Jerome]] (Onomast. s.v. '''''Ἀραμά''''' ) allude to it ( '''''Μαλαθί''''' ) as a place four Roman miles distant from Arad, which latter they describe as an ancient city of the [[Amorites]] situated in the wilderness of Kadesh, and twenty miles from Hebron, on the road to Aila (see Reland, Palaest. page 885). At a later period Malatha became a Roman colony (Reland, p. 231). Dr. Robinson (Researches, 2:621) finds the locality in the present el-Milh, first observed by Schubert (Reise, 2:454), consisting of extensive ruins with a well, situated at the required distance from the site of [[Arad]] (comp. Schwarz, Palest. page 100). The present name, signifying "salt," has little affinity with the Heb. appellation, but may be a corruption of it (Wilson, Lands of the Bible, 1:346; [[Van]] de Velde, Memoir, page 335; Ritter, Pal. und Syr. 1:124; Tristram, Land of Israel, page 369 sq.; Stewart, Tent and Khan, page 217). </p>
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| == International Standard Bible Encyclopedia <ref name="term_6434" /> ==
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| <p> ''''' mol´a ''''' - ''''' da ''''' , ''''' mṓ ''''' - ''''' lā´da ''''' ( מולדה , <i> ''''' mōlādhāh ''''' </i> ; Μωλαδά , <i> ''''' Mōladá ''''' </i> ): A place in the far south (Negebh) of Judah, toward Edom ( Joshua 15:26 ), reckoned to Simeon ( Joshua 19:2; 1 Chronicles 4:28 ). It was repopulated after the captivity ( Nehemiah 11:26 ). It is mentioned always in close proximity to Beersheba. Moladah is probably identical with Malatha, a city in [[Idumea]] to which Agrippa at one time withdrew himself (Josephus, <i> Ant. </i> , Xviii , vi, 2). The site of this latter city has by Robinson and others been considered to be the ruins and wells of <i> ''''' Tell ''''' </i> <i> ''''' el ''''' </i> - <i> ''''' Milḥ ''''' </i> , some 13 miles to the East of [[Beersheba]] and some 7 miles Southwest of Arad. The chief difficulty is the statement of Eusebius and Jerome that Malatha was "by Jattir," i.e. <i> ''''' ‛Attir ''''' </i> ; if this is correct the <i> ''''' Tell ''''' </i> <i> ''''' el ''''' </i> - <i> ''''' Milḥ ''''' </i> is impossible, as it is 10 miles from <i> ''''' ‛Attir ''''' </i> , and we have no light at all on the site. See [[Salt]] , City Of . For Tell el-Milch see Pef , III, 415-16, Sh Xxv . </p>
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| | | <ref name="term_51127"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/moladah+(2) Moladah from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref> |
| <ref name="term_73734"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/smith-s-bible-dictionary/moladah Moladah from Smith's Bible Dictionary]</ref> | |
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| <ref name="term_36603"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/fausset-s-bible-dictionary/moladah Moladah from Fausset's Bible Dictionary]</ref>
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| <ref name="term_52808"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/hastings-dictionary-of-the-bible/moladah Moladah from Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible]</ref>
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| <ref name="term_67455"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/morrish-bible-dictionary/moladah Moladah from Morrish Bible Dictionary]</ref>
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| <ref name="term_42550"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/holman-bible-dictionary/moladah Moladah from Holman Bible Dictionary]</ref>
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| <ref name="term_32576"> [https://bibleportal.com/dictionary/easton-s-bible-dictionary/moladah Moladah from Easton's Bible Dictionary]</ref>
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| <ref name="term_51135"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/moladah Moladah from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref>
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Moladah [1]
Khurbet el-Milh, the probable representative of this locality, is seven miles and three quarters southwest of Tell Araad, and thirteen and a quarter, east of Beersheba. It is briefly described in the Memoirs accompanying the Ordnance Survey (3:415), and more fully by Tristram, Bible Places (page 19), as follows:
"The two wells are in the shallow valley, very finely built of marble, about seventy feet deep, their sides scored with the ropes of the water-drawers of many centuries. The ground around is strewn with records of the Roman occupation. Fragments of shafts and capitals, probably the support of roofs that covered the wells, and eight large marble water-troughs, lie around the mouths. There are traces of pavement. Just to the south of the wells stands a small isolated 'tell' or hill, covered with ruins, and now used as a burying- ground of the Dhunlam tribe. This hill was the fortress of the city below, spoken of by Josephus; and we could :clearly trace the circuit of the wall that once surrounded it, nearly square in shape, and still in places three or four feet high. The traces of buildings and fragments of walls cover an extensive area both south and north of the citadel: and near its foot, on the south-east, are the outlines of a building, probably a Byzantine church. The other ruins seem to belong to an earlier and ruder period, and are perhaps the remains of the town of Simeon."
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