Balah

Balah was a town in the tribal inheritance of Simeon, named in Joshua 19:3: "And Hazar-shual, and Balah, and Azem." The same site appears as "Bilhah" in the parallel list at 1 Chronicles 4:29. Like the other Simeonite towns scattered through the Judean Negev, Balah lay on the desert frontier between settled Israel and the wilderness of Edom and the Amalekites. The exact site has not been securely identified, but it lay somewhere in the western Negev between Beersheba and the coastal frontier of the Philistines, in the territory the tribe of Simeon was eventually absorbed into by the larger tribe of Judah.