Helam (, ''ḥêlām''; meaning "stronghold", or "place of abundance") is a
Hebrew Bible place name. According to
2 Samuel
The Book of Samuel () is a book in the Hebrew Bible, found as two books (1–2 Samuel) in the Old Testament. The book is part of the Deuteronomistic history, a series of books (Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings) that constitute a theological ...
10:15-18, Helam was the site of King
David
David (; , "beloved one") was a king of ancient Israel and Judah and the third king of the United Monarchy, according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament.
The Tel Dan stele, an Aramaic-inscribed stone erected by a king of Aram-Dam ...
's victory over the Syrians under
Hadadezer.
It may be associated with modern
Alma, Israel, about 55 km (34 mi) east of the
Sea of Galilee
The Sea of Galilee (, Judeo-Aramaic languages, Judeo-Aramaic: יַמּא דטבריא, גִּנֵּיסַר, ), also called Lake Tiberias, Genezareth Lake or Kinneret, is a freshwater lake in Israel. It is the lowest freshwater lake on Earth ...
.
For Helam/Alema, a place mentioned in
1 Maccabees
1 Maccabees, also known as the First Book of Maccabees, First Maccabees, and abbreviated as 1 Macc., is a deuterocanonical book which details the history of the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid Empire as well as the founding and earliest hi ...
, see
Alma, Syria.
See also
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Alma, Israel
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Hadadezer bar Rehob
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List of biblical places starting with H
Footnotes
References
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* {{cite book, last1=Eerdmans, first1=David Noel Freedman, others=Allen C. Myers, associate ed.; Astrid B. Beck, managing ed., title=Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible, date=2000, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qRtUqxkB7wkC, page=571, location=Grand Rapids, MI
tc.isbn=9789053565032
Hebrew Bible places
Archaeological sites in Israel