Place

Helkath Hazzurim

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Named at 2 Samuel 2:16: “They each caught his opponent by the head and thrust his sword in his fellow’s side; so they fell down together. Therefore that place in Gibeon was called Helkath Hazzurim.” Neither edition says who called it so.

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2SA 2:12–17, engwebp
¹²Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ishbosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.
¹³Joab the son of Zeruiah and David’s servants went out, and met them by the pool of Gibeon; and they sat down, the one on the one side of the pool and the other on the other side of the pool.
¹⁴Abner said to Joab, “Please let the young men arise and compete before us!” Joab said, “Let them arise!”
¹⁵Then they arose and went over by number: twelve for Benjamin and for Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of David’s servants.
¹⁶They each caught his opponent by the head and thrust his sword in his fellow’s side; so they fell down together. Therefore that place in Gibeon was called Helkath Hazzurim.
¹⁷The battle was very severe that day; and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before David’s servants.
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Matched to OpenBible.info’s “Helkath-hazzurim” by name and 1 shared verse. The centre of the area given for its leading identification, within 500 m of Gibeon (confidence 1000 of 1000), is adopted as a sourced approximation: not verified here, and not the place of any particular event.

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within 500 m of Gibeon
OpenBible.info confidence 1000 of 1000 (current scholarship)
31.84745, 35.18335
OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, “Helkath-hazzurim” (CC BY 4.0)

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Narrated location (1) — Helkath Hazzurim, the place in Gibeon where each thrusts his sword in his fellow’s side and they fall down together

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They each caught his opponent by the head and thrust his sword in his fellow’s side; so they fell down together. Therefore that place in Gibeon was called Helkath Hazzurim.

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Entry: Helkath Hazzurim (place-helkath-hazzurim)
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Current wording: Named at 2 Samuel 2:16: “They each caught his opponent by the head and thrust his sword in his fellow’s side; so they fell down together. Therefore that place in Gibeon was called Helkath Hazzurim.” Neither edition says who called it so.
Cited evidence: 2SA 2:12–17, engwebp
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