Valley of Elah: David and Goliath. David built a palace overlooking the site. Queiyafa (biblical Sha'arayim) was a fortress near Elah (Valley of David and Goliath)
Valley of Elah BD Valley of the terebinths. Runs west between Zekharia and Azekah, a valley of the Shephelah, between Philistia and the hill country of Judah. Here Goliath was killed by David (1 Sam. 17:2, 19; 21:9).
2 And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and pitched by the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines.
3 And the Philistines stood on a mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on a mountain on the other side: and there was a valley between them.
4 And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
19 Now Saul, and they, and all the men of Israel, were in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.
20 And David rose up early in the morning, and left the sheep with a keeper, and took, and went, as Jesse had commanded him; and he came to the trench, as the host was going forth to the fight, and shouted for the battle.