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Zareth-shahar in the Bible

Meaning: the splendor of the dawn

This is a city “in the mount of the valley” (Joshua 13:19).

It is identified with the ruins of Zara, near the mouth of the Wady Zerka Main, on the eastern shore of the Dead Sea, some 3 miles south of the Callirrhoe. Little remains of this ancient town.

“A few broken basaltic columns and pieces of wall about 200 yards back from the shore, and a ruined fort rather nearer the sea, about the middle of the coast line of the plain, are all that are left.” —Dr. Henry Baker Tristram, Land of Moab

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