Zareth-shahar

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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Zareth-shahar
     the splendour of the dawn, a city "in the mount of the valley"
     (Josh. 13:19). It is identified with the ruins of Zara, near the
     mouth of the Wady Zerka Main, on the eastern shore of the Dead
     Sea, some 3 miles south of the Callirrhoe. Of this town but
     little remains. "A few broken basaltic columns and pieces of


     wall about 200 yards back from the shore, and a ruined fort
     rather nearer the sea, about the middle of the coast line of the
     plain, are all that are left" (Tristram's Land of Moab).