Elealeh

El´ee-ay´luh

A Moabite city east of the Jordan River that, along with Heshbon and surrounding cities, was given to the tribe of Reuben after they and the tribe of Gad requested that Moses allow them to settle there (Num 32:1-5). The city was rebuilt by the Reubenites (Num 32:33-38), although by the time of Isaiah and Jeremiah it was back in Moabite hands (ca. 700–625 BCE). The city is identified as modern el-Al, about fifteen miles east and slightly north of the north end of the Dead Sea.