Secacah

Secacah appears once in Scripture in Joshua's catalog of Judah's wilderness district above the Dead Sea: "In the wilderness, Beth-arabah, Middin, and Secacah, And Nibshan, and the city of Salt, and En-gedi; six cities with their villages" (Joshua 15:61-62). The town occupied the barren limestone bench above the Dead Sea between the Judean highlands and the salty shore — small frontier encampments that watched the routes from the central highlands down to En-gedi and across to Edom. Some scholars connect Secacah with the Khirbet Qumran area where the Dead Sea Scrolls were later hidden, identifying it as the Iron Age predecessor of the famous Essene community.