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Tel-melah

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By: George A. Morrish

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Place from whence Jews returned from exile (Ezra 2:59⁵⁹And these were they which went up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsa, Cherub, Addan, and Immer: but they could not show their father's house, and their seed, whether they were of Israel: (Ezra 2:59); Neh. 7:61⁶¹And these were they which went up also from Tel-melah, Tel-haresha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer: but they could not show their father's house, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel. (Nehemiah 7:61)). Supposed to be the Thelme of Ptolemy, a city of the low salt tract near the Persian Gulf. The name signifies “Hill of Salt.”

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