SHAALABBIN, Shaalbin, Salebim, or Selebin. A City of Palestine, in the Tribe of Dan, Josh. xix. 42. It joins to Ajalon, and to Heres, Judg. i. 35, and to the Cities of Makaz and Bethshemesh. All which Circumstances pretty nearly shew its Situation. The present Hebrew Text reads it Shaalabim. Eusebius calls it Salaba, and Euseb. in locis Hebr.places it in the Canton of Samaria. Psal. xii. 6. Hieron. Com. in Ezekiel xlviii. LXX. in Graec. Josh. xix. 42. Psal. lxxix. 12. Judg. i. 8. Joseph. de Bello, l. 3. c. 2. p. 835. Gen. iv. 15, 24.St. Jerom calls it Salebi, and joins it to Ajalon and to Emmaus. The Septuagint call it Salamin, or Talamin.
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