CHESULLOTH (1.-k= ; Sept. Xao-aM0).
In Josh. xix. 18, the border of Zebulun is said to lie ` toward Jezreel, and Chesulloth, and Shunem.' From this it might be inferred that Chesulloth was situated between Jezreel and Shunem, both of which lie in the valley between Little Hermon and Gilboa ; but a closer examination of the whole passage shews that the border towns are named without any regard to their geographical order ; and besides, the writer of this article was unable to discover any trace of town or village in the valley between Shunem and Jezreel. In verse 12, Chisloth-Tabor is mentioned in the description of the boundary of Zebulun, where it bordered on Issachar, and this is by some supposed to be the same as Chesulloth. [CitisLoTH-TABoR.] From the base of Carmel the line ran eastward, ap parently along the banks of the Kishon to Chisloth Tabar, and to Daberath (now Debz2rieh), which lay at the base of Mount Tabor. Josephus mentions a town called Xaloth in the great plain' (Bell. .7ud.
iii. 3. 1), and Eusebius and Jerome speak of it as in the plain near Tabor (Onomast, s.v. Acchaselath).
On the northern side of the great plain of Es draelon, at the point indicated by the notices in the Scriptures, and in Eusebius and Jerome, stands the little village of Iksdl. There can be no doubt that this is identical with Chisloth or Chesulloth, which is just another form of the same name, and with the Xaloth of Josephus. The village is built on a low rocky spur, which shoots out from the base of the mountain range of Galilee. It contains no ancient buildings, and few ruins ; but there are around it, and in the neighbouring cliffs, numerous tombs hewn in the rock, such as are usually found near the old towns of Palestine (Pococke's Travels, ii. 65 ; Robinson, B.R., ii. 332 ; Ritter, Pal. nod Syr., ii. L. P.