Sela (Joktheel)
셀라 (욕드엘)
Named at 2 Kings 14:7, which the Korean Revised Version opens with Amaziah (아마샤가) and WEB with “He”: “He killed ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt, and took Sela by war, and called its name Joktheel, to this day.”
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- 2KI 14:7, engwebp
7He killed ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt, and took Sela by war, and called its name Joktheel, to this day.
- ISA 16:1–5, engwebp
1Send the lambs for the ruler of the land from Selah to the wilderness, to the mountain of the daughter of Zion.
2For it will be that as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so will the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.
3Give counsel! Execute justice! Make your shade like the night in the middle of the noonday! Hide the outcasts! Don’t betray the fugitive!
4Let my outcasts dwell with you! As for Moab, be a hiding place for him from the face of the destroyer. For the extortionist is brought to nothing. Destruction ceases. The oppressors are consumed out of the land.
5A throne will be established in loving kindness. One will sit on it in truth, in the tent of David, judging, seeking justice, and swift to do righteousness.
- ISA 42:10–17, engwebp
10Sing to the LORD a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and all that is therein, the islands and their inhabitants.
11Let the wilderness and its cities raise their voices, with the villages that Kedar inhabits. Let the inhabitants of Sela sing. Let them shout from the top of the mountains!
12Let them give glory to the LORD, and declare his praise in the islands.
13The LORD will go out like a mighty man. He will stir up zeal like a man of war. He will raise a war cry. Yes, he will shout aloud. He will triumph over his enemies.
14“I have been silent a long time. I have been quiet and restrained myself. Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will both gasp and pant.
15I will destroy mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs. I will make the rivers islands, and will dry up the pools.
16I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.
17“Those who trust in engraved images, who tell molten images, ‘You are our gods,’ will be turned back. They will be utterly disappointed.
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Machine comparison on 2026-10-07: the wording raised none of the 3 rules against the passages this entry cites. No person has read it.
Geographic sources & candidates
Matched to OpenBible.info’s “Sela 2” by name and 2 shared verses. The coordinate of its leading identification, Sela (confidence 437 of 1000), is adopted as a sourced approximation: not verified here, and not the place of any particular event. 1 other identification is listed too.
AI-assisted source review; human approval pending, 2026-09-29
- Sela
OpenBible.info confidence 437 of 1000 (current scholarship)
30.78087, 35.57446
OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, “Sela 2” (CC BY 4.0) - Umm el Bayyara
OpenBible.info confidence 203 of 1000 (current scholarship)
30.32675, 35.434
OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, “Sela 2” (CC BY 4.0)
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Narrated location (1) — Amaziah kills ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt, and takes Sela and calls it Joktheel
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He killed ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt, and took Sela by war, and called its name Joktheel, to this day.
Let the wilderness and its cities raise their voices, with the villages that Kedar inhabits. Let the inhabitants of Sela sing. Let them shout from the top of the mountains!
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Current wording: Named at 2 Kings 14:7, which the Korean Revised Version opens with Amaziah (아마샤가) and WEB with “He”: “He killed ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt, and took Sela by war, and called its name Joktheel, to this day.”
Cited evidence: 2KI 14:7, engwebp / ISA 16:1–5, engwebp / ISA 42:10–17, engwebp
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