Dale, the king’s
Easton's Bible Dictionary
The name of a valley, the alternative for “the valley of Shaveh” (q.v.), near the Dead Sea, where the king of Sodom met Abraham (Gen 14:17). Some have identified it with the southern part of the valley of Jehoshaphat, where Absalom reared his family monument (2 Sam 18:18).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Dale, King's
(dal, `emeq hamelekh) :
(1) "Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself the pillar, which is in the king's dale" (2 Sam 18:18). According to Josephus (Ant., VII, x, 3) this was a marble pillar, which he calls "Absalom's hand" and it was two furlongs from Jerusalem. Warren suggests that this dale was identical with the King's Garden (which see), which he places at the open valley formed at the junction of the Tyropoen with the Kidron (see Jerusalem). The so-called Absalom's Pillar, which the Jews still pelt with stones in reprobation of Absalom's disobedience, and which a comparatively recent tradition associates with 2 Sam 18:18, is a very much later structure, belonging to the Greco- Roman period, but showing Egyptian influence.
(2) King's Vale (Gen 14:17; the King James Version dale). See King's Vale; Vale.
E. W. G. Masterman
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