Dict: smith - SHUAL, THE LAND OF

smith:

SHUAL, THE LAND OF - S>@ - a district named in ( kjv@1Samuel:13:17) only. It is pretty certain from the passage that it lay north of Michmash. If therefore it be identical with the "land of Shalim" ( kjv@1Samuel:9:4)
as is not impossible
we have the first and only clue yet obtained to Saul’s journey in quest of the asses. The name Shual has not yet been identified.