Salecah

Salecah marked the southeastern boundary of Bashan, the giant kingdom of King Og whom Moses defeated east of the Jordan (Deuteronomy 3:10, Joshua 12:5, 13:11). The Hebrew description repeats Salecah as the proverbial farthest extent of Bashan: "all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (he alone was left of the remnant of the Rephaim); these did Moses smite, and dispossess them. From Aroer... and all the cities of the plain... and all Bashan, to Salecah" (Joshua 13:11-12). Salecah later became part of the territory of the half-tribe of Manasseh and is named in the genealogies of Gad as the seat of one of the Gadite clans expanding eastward: "they settled... in Salecah" (1 Chronicles 5:11). Generally identified with modern Salkhad on the southern slope of Jebel Hauran in modern Syria, about 100 km southeast of Damascus.