Ziklag

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Ziklag
     a town in the Negeb, or south country of Judah (Josh. 15:31), in
     the possession of the Philistines when David fled to Gath from
     Ziph with all his followers. Achish, the king, assigned him
     Ziklag as his place of residence. There he dwelt for over a year
     and four months. From this time it pertained to the kings of


     Judah (1 Sam. 27:6). During his absence with his army to join
     the Philistine expedition against the Israelites (29:11), it was
     destroyed by the Amalekites (30:1, 2), whom David, however,
     pursued and utterly routed, returning all the captives (1 Sam.
     30:26-31). Two days after his return from this expedition, David
     received tidings of the disastrous battle of Gilboa and of the
     death of Saul (2 Sam. 1:1-16). He now left Ziklag and returned
     to Hebron, along with his two wives, Ahinoam and Abigail, and
     his band of 600 men. It has been identified with 'Asluj, a heap
     of ruins south of Beersheba. Conder, however, identifies it with
     Khirbet Zuheilikah, ruins found on three hills half a mile
     apart, some seventeen miles north-west of Beersheba, on the
     confines of Philistia, Judah, and Amalek.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Ziklag, measure pressed down