1 Samuel 9:4

Mount Ephraim. Though Gibeah, Saul's home, was in Benjamin, it was situated on this long mountain range ( 1 Samuel 1:1 ). The land of Shalisha. I.e. Three-land, and probably, therefore, the region round Baal-shalisha. It takes its name from the three valleys which there converge in the great Wady Kurawa, The land of Shalim. I.e. of jackals; probably the same as the land of Shual, also = jackal-land ( 1 Samuel 13:17 ). The very name shows that it was a wild, uninhabited region. The derivation hollow-land is untenable.