Sela
Sela (of se' lah , hone ) was the capital of Édom. Located in large the Valley extending from the Dead Sea at the Red Sea, it was established close to the mount Hor, itself localized close to the Désert of Zin. When Amaziah took the city, it called it Joktheel . It is mentioned by the prophets as condemned to the destruction.
It is identified with the ruins of Sela, the east of Tafileh (the biblical Tophel ) and close to Bozrah, these two places being in Jordan.
Later in the history, it appears under the name of Pétra in the Vulgate: The Caravan S of all the ages, the interior of the Arabia and the Persian Gulf, the Hadramaout on the Ocean, and even of Sabea or the Yemen, took Pétra like centers common; and of Pétra the tide seems to be spread in all the directions, in Egypt, Palestine and Syria, while passing by Arsinoé, Gaza, Tyr, Jerusalem and Damas, and by other roads, finishing on the the Mediterranean.
There exists also another Sela, a Jewish city abandoned in the north of Médine in Saudi Arabia.
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