the hand of slander, or of cursing
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
IDALAH.A town of Zebulun (Jos_19:15).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Id'alah. (memorial of God). One of the cities of the tribe of Zebulun, named between Shimron and Bethlehem. Jos_19:15.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
id?a-la, i-dā?la (ידאלה, yidh'ălāh): A town in the territory of Zebulun, named with Shimron and Beth-lehem (Jos_19:15). The Talmud identifies it with Ḥuryēh (Talm Jerusalem on Megh., I, 1). This, Conder thinks, may be represented by the modern Khirbet el-Ḥuwāra to the South of Beit Laḥm.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Idalah
(Heb. Yidalah', יַדנְאֲלָה, probably exalted; Sept. Ι᾿αδηλά), a city near the western border of Zebulon, mentioned between Shimron and Bethlehem (Jos_19:15). According to Schwarz, it is called Chirii in the Talmud, and is identical with the village Kelluh al. Chire, six English miles southwest of Shimron or Semunie (Palestine, p. 172). He doubtless refers to the niace marked on Robinson's map as Kulat el-Kireh, in the valley of the Kishon, south-west of Semunieh or imonias; a position not improbable. especially if marked by the ruins on the north side of the river. Dr. Robinson, who afterwards visited it, calls it Jeida, a miserable village with no traces of antiquity (Later Researches, p. 113); but Van de Velde shows that it actually has many marks, although now much obliterated, of being an off site (Memoir, p. 322).
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.