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The southeastern frontier of Bashan — the city marking the limit of Ogs giant kingdom that fell to Israel under Moses
BashanSalecah marked the southeastern boundary of Bashan, the giant kingdom of King Og whom Moses defeated east of the Jordan (Deuteronomy 3:10, Joshua 12:5, 13:11). The Hebrew description repeats Salecah as the proverbial farthest extent of Bashan: "all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (he alone was left of the remnant of the Rephaim); these did Moses smite, and dispossess them. From Aroer... and all the cities of the plain... and all Bashan, to Salecah" (Joshua 13:11-12). Salecah later became part of the territory of the half-tribe of Manasseh and is named in the genealogies of Gad as the seat of one of the Gadite clans expanding eastward: "they settled... in Salecah" (1 Chronicles 5:11). Generally identified with modern Salkhad on the southern slope of Jebel Hauran in modern Syria, about 100 km southeast of Damascus.
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