Balah, called also Bilhah, 1 Chronicles 4:29; and Baalah, Joshua 15:29. For let this be observed, once for all, that the names of persons or places are frequently changed through length of time, or difference of dialects, or study of brevity and easiness in pronunciation, or new accidents, or other causes. Thus Eltolad and Bethul, Joshua 19:4 are called Tokad and Bethstel, 1 Chronicles 4:29,30; and for Beth-lebaoth, Joshua 19:6, is Beth-birei, 1 Chronicles 4:31.
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Joshua 19:3
3 And Hazarshual, and Balah, and Azem,