Zeboim

Zeboim appears in two distinct biblical contexts. First as one of the five cities of the plain that king Chedorlaomer attacked and that God destroyed alongside Sodom and Gomorrah: "These were joined together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea... Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim" (Genesis 14:2-3, 8). Second as a Benjaminite valley town named in Nehemiah's post-exile resettlement catalog (Nehemiah 11:34) and in 1 Samuel 13:18 as the valley toward which one of three Philistine raiding parties turned from Michmash. The two cities are clearly distinct geographic sites.