Keilah
Sign in to saveKeilah () was a city in the lowlands of the Kingdom of Judah. It is now a ruin known as Khirbet Qeyla near the modern village of Qila, Hebron, east of Bayt Jibrin and about west of Kharas.
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It is catalogued under topics including Amarna letters locations, Ancient Jewish history and Ancient Jewish settlements of Judaea.
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- History
- Late Bronze
- Iron Age
- Second Temple period
- Description of ruin
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Keilah () was a city in the lowlands of the Kingdom of Judah. It is now a ruin known as Khirbet Qeyla near the modern village of Qila, Hebron, east of Bayt Jibrin and about west of Kharas.
==History== ===Late Bronze=== The earliest historical record of Keilah is found in the Amarna letters from the 14th century BCE. In some of them, Qeilah and her king Šuwardata are mentioned. It is possible to infer from them the importance of this city among the cities of Canaan that bordered near Egypt before the conquest of Canaan by the Israelites.
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