Shaul

1. A king of Edom, On 36"'- [JE] = 1 Ch l'^'- He belonged to ' Rehoboth by the River.' See Rehoboth. 2. A son of Simeon, Gn 461" [R] (A SaMow?X, D •" ^no.'X, B den-i), Ex 6'^ Nu 26" [both P], 1 Ch 4^". The clan of which he is the eponyra was of mixed Isr. and Can. descent, hence Shaul is called in Gn 46'° and Ex 6'=^ 'the son of the Canaanitess.' See Gene- alogy, II. 2. In Nu 26'' the patronymic Shaulites (-SLsrn, Sijfios i ^aoi'\ei) occurs. 3. An ancestor of Samuel, 1 Ch 6=^ f> (called in v.^ (^'i Joel. See Joel, No. 3). SHAYEH, The Vale of (.11^ ptE ; A Trji- Koi\dda Ti]i' -aO-ijv, D T. K. T. Zavfi; vallis Save). — A broad valley (one/:), known also as ' the king's vale' ((Jn 14"), which was near Salem. It is apparentlj' the same place as ' the king's dale] (^^-n P:?V 2 S 18"), in which Absalom set up a pillar or monument. According to Josephus {Ant. VU. x. 3), this monu- ment was two statlia from Jerusalem. If the view that Salem was Jerusalem be correct, the valley of Sliaveh was possibly the broad open head of the valley of Hinnom which, lower down, contracts to a ravine. See Salem. C. \V. Wilson.