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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.

Pas-dammim (Ephes-dammim)

Eleazar son of Dodo held his ground here. It lay between Socoh and Azekah in the Valley of Elah, the same country where David killed Goliath. First Samuel calls it Ephes-dammim.

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Eleazar son of Dodo held his ground here. It lay between Socoh and Azekah in the Valley of Elah, the same country where David killed Goliath. First Samuel calls it Ephes-dammim.

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Pas-dammim, called Ephes-dammim in 1 Samuel 17:1, lay between Socoh and Azekah in the Valley of Elah, the same district where David killed Goliath. In 1 Chronicles 11:13 it is the site where Eleazar son of Dodo held his ground against the Philistines when the rest of Israel's army fled, one of the feats that earned him a place among David's three mightiest warriors.

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  • 1 Chronicles 11:13

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