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'''Sela''' (from ''Se'lah, rock'') was the capital of Edom, situated in the great valley extending from the [[Dead Sea]] to the Red Sea (2 Kings 14:7). It was near [[Mount]] Hor, close by the desert of Zin. It is called "the rock" (Judg. 1:36). When [[Amaziah]] took it he called it [[Joktheel]] (q.v.) It is mentioned by the prophets (Isa. 16:1; Obad. 1:3) as doomed to destruction.
Sela is identified with the ruins of Sela, east to Tafileh in Jordan (identified as biblical [[Tophel]]) and near [[Bostra]], all Edomite cities in the mount of [[Edom]].
[[Image:Sela.JPG|thumb|Old Sela|200px|right]]
Sela appears in later history and in the Vulgate Version of the Bible under the name of [[Petra]]. "The caravans from all ages, from the interior of [[Arabia]] and from the Gulf of Persia, from Hadramaut on the ocean, and even from Sabea or Yemen, appear to have pointed to Petra as a common centre; and from Petra the tide seems again to have branched out in every direction, to Egypt, Palestine, and Syria, through Arsinoe, Gaza, Tyre, Jerusalem, and Damascus, and by other routes, terminating at the Mediterranean." (See [[Edom]] [2].)
Sela in Saudi Arabia is also an abandoned Jewish city, just north of Medina, the city of Prophet Mohammad north of Mecca.
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