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Baal-Shalisha
Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary
We meet with mention of this place, 2 Kings 4:42, but whether there was an idol there, is not said. Shalesh is the Hebrew for three. So that it may be read the lord of three. But the cause for the name is difficult to explain.
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Hawker, Robert D.D. Entry for 'Baal-Shalisha'. Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance and Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/pmd/b/baal-shalisha.html. London. 1828.