Joktheel

Joktheel appears twice in Scripture under two completely different geographic identities. First, in Joshua 15:38 it is listed among the Shephelah towns of Judah's inheritance: "Dilean, and Mizpeh, and Joktheel, Lachish, and Bozkath, and Eglon" — a lowland settlement near Lachish. Second and far more dramatically, King Amaziah of Judah captured the Edomite rock-fortress of Sela and "called the name of it Joktheel unto this day" (2 Kings 14:7), commemorating his victory in the Valley of Salt where he struck down ten thousand Edomites. The renaming reflected Judah's temporary reassertion of dominance over Edom.