Identification
The exact location of Ziklag has not been identified with any certainty.
At the end of the 19th century, both Haluza (by Wadi Asluj, south of Beersheba) and Khirbet Zuheiliqah (located north-west of Beersheba and south-southeast of Gaza city) had been suggested. Ziklag is generally agreed to be a significant corruption of the location's actual name; Haluza was identified as the location on the basis of Ziklag being a corruption of Halusah (slightly clearer in the underlying Hebrew script than in English), meaning fortress; Khirbet Zuheiliqah was identified by Conder and Kitchener as the location on the basis of Ziklag being a corruption of Zahaliku.
Other proposed identifications for Ziklag are:
- Tel Zayit
- Tel Sera (Tel esh-Sharia, 31°23′26.06″N 34°40′50.07″E / 31.3905722°N 34.680575°E / 31.3905722; 34.680575).
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