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Sela or Selah (sç'lah), the rock, and named Joktheel. 2 Kings 14:7; Isaiah 16:1. Rendered "rock" in Judges 1:36; 2 Chronicles 25:12. Probably the city later known as Petra, the ruins of which are found about two days' journey north of the Gulf of Akabah, It was in the midst of Mount Seir, in the neighborhood of Mount Hor, and therefore Edomite territory. About 70 b.c. Petra appears as the residence of the Arab princes named Aretas. Trajan reduced it to subjection to the Roman empire. Petra lay, though at a high level, in a hollow three-quarters of a mile long and from 800 to 1600 feet wide, shut in by mountain cliffs, and approached only by a narrow ravine, through which the river winds. There are extensive ruins at Petra of Roman date.
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Rice, Edwin Wilbur, DD. Entry for 'Sela'. People's Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/rpd/s/sela.html. 1893.
Rice, Edwin Wilbur, DD. Entry for 'Sela'. People's Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/rpd/s/sela.html. 1893.
