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Shalisha

SHALISHA, or Salissa, or Baal-salisa. Mention is made of Shalisha, 1 Sam. ix. 4. and of Baal-shalisha, 2 Kings iv. 42. Shalisha was fifteen Miles from Diospolis, in the Canton Thamnitica, to the North of Jerusalem1.

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  1. See Eusebius, and St. Jerom, in Beth-schalisa. Christ 768, before the Vulgar Era 772. ↩

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