Chesil
כְּסִיל/KEE-sil/
“Fool or the constellation Orion”
Summary
A town in the extreme south of Judah, probably identical with Bethul and Bethuel in parallel passages.
☩Location and Identity
Chesil was a town in the extreme south of Palestine, named between Eltolad and Hormah in the inheritance of Judah. In the list of towns given from Judah to Simeon, the name Bethul appears in its place, as if the two are identical or one is a corruption of the other. This identification is confirmed by the reading in 1 Chronicles 4:30, which gives Bethuel, and by the mention of a Bethel among the cities of the extreme south in 1 Samuel 30:27. The name may have arisen from a misreading of the text.
Key verses:Joshua 15:30Joshua 19:41 Chronicles 4:30
References
- 1.John McClintock and James Strong, "Chesil," in Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature, vol. II (Harper & Brothers, 1867–1887).
- 2.James Orr (ed.), "Chesil," in International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, vol. I (Howard-Severance Company, 1915).
- 3.Andrew Robert Fausset, "Chesil," in The Englishman's Critical and Expository Bible Cyclopædia (Hodder & Stoughton, 1878).