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Where Is David’s Ziklag?

By Volkmar Fritz

David, while fleeing from King Saul, joined the Philistines, ancient Israel’s bitter enemies. With 600 men (and their families), David presented himself to Achish, king of the Philistine city of Gath, and asked for asylum. Achish gave David the town of Ziklag, and David lived there a year and four months (1 Samuel 27:1–7). With Ziklag as his base, David raided the Geshurites, the Girzites and the Amalekites, who, we are told, inhabited the region of Olam (or Telem) on the way to Shur and on to the land of Egypt (1 Samuel 27:8). When David reported his raids, […]

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Endnotes

1.

See Volkmar Fritz, Zeitschrift des deutschen Palestina-Vereins (ZDPV) 91 (1975), pp. 30–45.

2.

Albrecht Alt, Kleine Schriften zur Geschichte des Volkes Israel III (1959), pp. 409–435.

3.

Joe D. Seger, “Investigations at Tell Halif, Israel, 1976–1980,” Bulletin of American Schools of Oriental Research (BASOR) 252 (1983), pp. 1–23.

4.

Yohanan Aharoni, The Land of the Bible, (London: Burns and Oates, 1979), p. 291.

5.

Eliezer Oren, “Ziglag—A biblical city on the edge of the Negev,” Biblical Archaeologist (BA) 45 (1982), pp. 155–166.

6.

Frank Crüsemann, ZDPV 89 (1973) pp. 211–224.

7.

Ram Gophna and Y. Yisraeli in Beer-sheba I, ed Y. Aharoni (Ramat Gan Tel Aviv Univ., 1973), pp. 115–118.

8.

Nadav Na‘aman,“The Inheritance of the Sons of Simeon,” ZDPV 96 (1980), pp. 149–151.

9.

Aharoni, in Beer-sheba I pp. 1–3.

10.

Aharoni, “Excavations at Tell Beer-sheba,” Tel Aviv 2 (1975), pp. 146–168.

11.

Fritz “The Roman Fortress,” in Beer-sheba I pp. 83–89.

12.

Fritz, ZDPV 102 (1988) 1–39; Alain Chambon, Tell el-Far‘ah I: L’age du Fer, (1984), Thomas L. McLellan, “Town Planning at Tell en Nasbe,” ZDPV 100 (1985), pp. 53–69.

13.

Ze‘ev Herzog et al., “The Israelite Fortress at Arad,” BASOR 254 (1984), pp. 1–34.

14.

See also Herzog, “Israelite City Planning,” Expedition 20/4 (1978), pp. 38–43.

15.

Fritz, ZDPV 93 (1977), pp. 30–45.