The place at which Saul concentrated his forces, and numbered his fighting men before his campaign against the Amalekites (1Sa 15:4). The Septuagint reads Gilgal for Telaim, and Josephus (Ant. VI. vii. 2) also makes Gilgal the place of assembly. A more suitable locality for the place of assembly would, however, be in the Negeb, or South; and here lay Telem (Jos 15:24), with which Telaim is probably identical.