Halhul

Halhul ("trembling") was a Judean hill country town near Hebron, named in Joshua 15:58 in the catalog of the sixth hill country district: "Halhul, Beth-zur, and Gedor." The town's name is preserved in the modern Palestinian town of Halhul about 5 km north of Hebron, where the traditional tomb of the prophet Jonah is venerated (one of several competing Jonah-tomb traditions). The town sat on the ridge between Hebron and Bethlehem on the central highland spine that ran through Judah, in the cluster of small farming settlements that filled the interior highlands.