Where was Halah?

A district of Media to which captive Israelites were transported by the Assyrian kings (2 Kings 17:6; 18:11; 1 Chr. 5:26). It lay along the banks of the upper Khabur, from its source to its junction with the Jerujer. Modern identification: Al Abbasiyah.

Halah is represented in the local geography layer as Al Abbasiyah. In this repository’s biblical text, the place first appears in 2 Kings 17:6 and is mentioned across 3 books, with 4 verse references collected into the glossary index.