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Sela or Selah [Heb.,=rock], in the Bible, unidentified town, S of the Dead Sea. Amaziah captured it and renamed it Joktheel. Some identify Sela with Petra . Sela in the first chapter of Judges seems to be another rock.

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Petra Capital of Edom and later of the Nabataean Kingdom, SE of the Dead Sea, in modern Jordan, probably the Sela of OT (e.g. 2 Kgs. 14: 7). Petra has impressive ornamental monuments, including a temple, carved out of the sandstone.

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