Chellus (Hastings' Dictionary)

From the text (Jth 1") this place is supposed to have been situated S.W. of JeruB. near Bctane, and N. of Kade.sh and the river (var. ' torrent') of Egypt, identiiied with the Wady el-'Ari.sh. Keland thinks it may be I.Ialu?ah (n>-;Sn), the site well known to the Gr. and Rom. geographers under the altered form of Elu.sa, situated near the source of the Wady es- Sani stream. The mention of a land of the Chel- liaus by the wilderness, to the south of which were the children of Ishmael (Jth '2^), is looked upon as supjiorting this view of the position of C. Doubt must, however, be regarded as accompany- ing the identilication of C. with yalu?ah or Elusa if the Syr. transcription Kalna (with K for Ch) be correct. C. is also regarded as a mistake for Chelul = Halhul, Job 15". L A. Pinches. CHELOD (B X(\to6\, m XeaXatovSd, A XeXeoiTJ, Old Lat. Clicncnth, Vulg. omits, Syr. Chalda'ans).-— Jth l"" reads, not as AV and RV ' many nations of the sons of Chelod a.ssembled themselves to battle,' but ' there came together many nations unto the array (or ranks) of the sons of Chcleul ' ; less naturally 'to battle with (against) the sons of Ch.' (elt irapiraiip vluf X. ). Svriao ' to fight against the Chaldajans,' is improljable. It is not certain whether the ' many -a'.ions' are allies of Nebuch- ailrezzar or ol :,.iia.im), nor whether they come to help or to light tne loms of Ch.' Probably v." summarises v.~; hence '6on8 of Ch.' should be 376 CHELUB CHERETHITES AND PELETHITE8 Nebuchadrezzar's army. But he is, in Jth, king of Assyrians, not Chalilajans. No probable conjecture as to Aram, original has been made. F. C. Porter.