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Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
HACHILAH (1Sa_23:19; 1Sa_26:1; 1Sa_26:3).?A hill in which David hid, and on which, during his pursuit, Saul pitched his camp, near the wilderness of Ziph. Ziph is mod. Tell ez-Z?f, to the S. of Hebron. Conder suggests that Hachilah may be the hill Dahr el-K?l?, but this is perhaps rather far to the east.
W. Ewing.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Hachilah
(Heb. Chakilah', חֲכילָה. according to Gesenius, darksome; according to Fürst, drought; Sept. Ε᾿χελά v.r. Χελμάθ), the descriptive name of a well Wooded hill (גַּבְעָה) near (on the south of, before, by the way of) the wilderness (Jeshimon) of Ziph, where David lay hid, and where Saul pitched his tent at the information of the Ziphites (1Sa_23:19; 1Sa_26:1; 1Sa_26:3). This is doubtless the Tell Zif reported by Dr. Robinson (Researches, 2, 190, 191) as a round eminence situated in the plain, a hundred feet or more in height, with a level plot on the top, apparently once enclosed by a wall, and containing several cisterns; lying a short distance west of the site of the town of Ziph. SEE ZIPH. The identification proposed by Schwarz (Palest. p. 113) with the village Beth-Chachal, 21 miles west of Hebron, is unsupported and out of place.
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