Nibshan

Nibshan appears once in Scripture in Joshua's catalog of Judah's wilderness district above the Dead Sea: "In the wilderness, Beth-arabah, Middin, and Secacah, And Nibshan, and the city of Salt, and En-gedi; six cities with their villages" (Joshua 15:61-62). The town occupied the barren limestone bench above the Dead Sea between the Judean highlands and the salty shore, in the cluster of small wilderness encampments that watched the routes from the central highlands down to En-gedi and across to Edom. Like many of its neighbor settlements, Nibshan vanished from history after the Iron Age, and its exact site remains unidentified by archaeology.