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Places of the Bible

Helam

Where the name appears

Events told in passages that name Helam, and how many of their verses do. That is not the same as saying they happened here: a place can be named as a landmark, as somewhere being travelled to, or as the subject of a prophecy.

  • Reign of David · 1054 BC · 2 verses

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

Place of abundance, a place on the east of Jordan and west of the Euphrates where David gained a great victory over the Syrian army (2 Sam. 10:16), which was under the command of Shobach. Some would identify it with Alamatta, near Nicephorium.

From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.

Named in 2 verses

2 Samuel
10:16, 10:17

The place, its people and its events come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.