The Israelites, under King Saul, faced the Philistines in the Valley of Elah.

* In the Valley of Elah, a 2007 film

* Near the Valley of Elah, David defeats Goliath in single combat ( 1 Samuel 17 ).

In the Valley of Elah,

Saul and the Israelites are facing the Philistines at the Valley of Elah.

Adullam is a region of Israel near the Valley of Elah ( to the south of Bet Shemesh ), west of Gush Etzion.

It stood near the highway which later became the Roman road in the Valley of Elah, the scene of David's memorable victory over Goliath (), and not far from Gath.

The site at Aid-el-ma ( Hurvat Adulam ), about 4 km south of the Valley of Elah, and about west from Bethlehem, is now more commonly accepted.

A valley descending southwest from Jerusalem to the Valley of Elah below, it is an ancient route from the coastal plain to the Judean Hills, probably named after the legendary race of giants.

It is located just west of the intersection of Route 60, the north – south artery which roughly follows the watershed from Nazareth through Jerusalem to Beersheba, and Route 375, which descends west into the Elah Valley to the coastal plain and Tel Aviv area.

In June 2011, archaeologists from Bar-Ilan University and Tel Aviv University announced the recovery of a stolen ossuary, plundered from a tomb in the Valley of Elah.

From north to south, they are: the Valley of Ayalon, Sorek Valley, Valley of Elah, Guvrin Valley, Valley of Lachish, and Valley of Adorayim.

Azekah was a town in the Shephelah guarding the upper reaches of the Valley of Elah, about 26 km ( 16 mi ) northwest of Hebron.

The Lautenschläger Azekah Expedition, part of the regional Elah Valley Project, commenced in the summer of 2012.

Mediterranean oak and terebinth woodland in the Valley of Elah

The Valley of Elah, " the valley of the oak or terebinth " ( Emek HaElah ) ( Arabic Wadi es-Sunt ), best known as the place described in the Bible where the Israelites were encamped when David fought Goliath ( 1 Sam.

The Valley of Elah has gained new importance as a point of support for the argument that Israel was more than a tribal chiefdom in the time of King David.

At Khirbet Qeiyafa, southwest of Jerusalem in the Elah Valley, Prof. Yosef Garfinkel has discovered a fortified Judahite city from the Iron Age IIa dated sometime between 1050 and 915 BCE.

In the Valley of Elah is the title of a 2007 film by Paul Haggis.

And all this too shall pass away: it came to him out of some dim corner of memory from a church service when he was a boy -- yes, in a white church with a thin spur steeple in the patriarchal Hudson Valley, where a feeling of plenitude was normal in those English-Dutch manors with their well-fed squires.

There he'd take a compass reading, figure his air speed, and deduce that in a certain number of minutes he'd be over the broad meadows of the Merrimack Valley where it would be safe to let down through the overcast and see the ground before it hit him.

He escaped custody and fled to the United States, where he successfully defeated legal attempts by the British authorities to have him extradited to face charges arising from the attack and the burning of the Valley House.

Named " Baraka ", its earliest colonizers are later driven out by rivals from Al-Andalus and flee to the Loire Valley, where they found the city of Nsara.

The Blackstone Valley was a major contributor of the American Industrial Revolution where Samuel Slater built his first textile mill.

The oldest known structures which have served as citadels were built by the Indus Valley Civilization, where the citadel represented a centralised authority.

The club play at The Valley in Charlton, where they have played since 1919, apart from one year in Catford, during 1923 – 24, and seven years at Crystal Palace and West Ham United between 1985 – 1992.

Despite the move away from the Valley, Charlton were promoted to the First Division as Second Division runners-up at the end of 1985 – 86, and remained at this level for four years ( achieving a highest league finish of 14th ) often with late escapes, most notably against Leeds in 1987, where the Addicks triumphed in extra-time of the play-off final replay to secure their top flight place.

Freeway opponents fear that upgrading Highway 84 will encourage more people to live in southern Alameda County ( where housing is more affordable ) and commute to jobs in the mid-Peninsula area ( where businesses wish to be located in order to be close to Silicon Valley ), thus increasing traffic in their neighborhoods to the south and west of U. S. 101.

It includes a museum where visitors can learn about the Indian history of the Miami Valley.

By luck, these men found the Valley of Copiapó, where a Spaniard called Gonzalo Calvo Barrientos, a Spaniard whom Pizarro had expelled from Peru for stealing objects the Inca had offered for his ransom, had already established a friendship with the local natives.

Coppola, with his family, expanded his business ventures to include winemaking in California's Napa Valley, where he purchased the former home and adjoining vineyard of Gustave Niebaum in Rutherford, California.

For the hardware hackers ( second generation ) and the game hackers ( third generation ) the geographic area was centered in Silicon Valley where the Homebrew Computer Club and the People's Computer Company helped hackers network, collaborate, and share their work.

His mother was Azubah Historically, his name has sometimes been connected with the Valley of Jehosaphat, where, according to Joel 3: 2, the god of Israel will gather all nations for judgment.

Majimboism has always had a strong following in the Rift Valley, the epicenter of the recent violence, where many locals have long believed that their land was stolen by outsiders.

The average temperature for July similarly varies from in the Fergana Valley, where the record high is, to a low of on the highest mountain peaks.

The area of Karachi was known to the ancient Greeks by many names: Krokola, the place where Alexander the Great camped to prepare a fleet for Babylonia after his campaign in the Indus Valley ; ' Morontobara ' ( probably Manora island near Karachi harbour ), from whence Alexander's admiral Nearchus set sail ; and Barbarikon, a port of the Bactrian kingdom.

The Biqa Valley is watered by two rivers that rise in the watershed near Baalbek: the Orontes flowing north ( in Arabic it is called Nahr al Asi, " the Rebel River ", because this direction is unusual ), and the Litani flowing south into the hill region of the southern Biqa Valley, where it makes an abrupt turn to the west in southern Lebanon and is thereafter called the Al Qasmiyah River.

The region was one of the four riverine civilizations where writing was invented ( it being the first ), along with the Nile valley in Egypt, the Indus Valley in the Indian subcontinent, and Yellow River valley in China ( although writing is also known to have arisen independently in Mesoamerica ).

After the success of his next film, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, he co-founded Studio Ghibli where he continued to produce many feature films until his temporary retirement in 1997 following Princess Mononoke.

The temperate and fertile Great Lakes-Saint Lawrence Valley in the south is part of the Eastern Great Lakes lowland forests ecoregion where the forest has now been largely replaced by agriculture, industrial and urban development.

The script is named after the Orkhon Valley in Mongolia, where early 8th century inscriptions were discovered in an 1889 expedition by Nikolay Yadrintsev.