A city in the valley of Lebanon at the foot of Hermon; the northernmost point, to which the wars of Joshua reached, Jos 11:17; 12:7; 13:5. It was perhaps the same as Baal-Hermon. Some have supposed it was Baalbek; but this lay further north.
from Mount Halak, which ascends to Seir, as far as Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon at the foot of Mount Hermon. He captured all their kings and struck them down, putting them to death.
Joshua and the Israelites struck down the following kings of the land beyond the Jordan to the west, from Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, which ascends toward Seir (Joshua gave their land as an inheritance to the tribes of Israel according to their allotments:
the land of the Gebalites; and all Lebanon east from Baal-gad below Mount Hermon to the entrance of Hamath-
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