Elah is more traditional, a crime procedural that involves a police detective (Theron) and the murdered GI's father (Jones).
Baasha rested with his fathers and was buried in Tirzah. And Elah his son succeeded him as king.
They are with Saul and all the men of Israel in the Valley of Elah, fighting against the Philistines.
The valley of Elah is where the Philistines sent out their Goliath to terrify the Israelites, and where young David felled the giant with his trusty slingshot.
The priest replied, "The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the Valley of Elah, is here; it is wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod.
Two thousand years ago in the Kingdom of Israel, the Philistine army marched into the valley of Elah and set up camp.
The writing was discovered more than a year ago on a pottery shard dug up during excavations at Khirbet Qeiyafa, near Israel's Elah valley.
The actor Josh Brolin, who appeared in Haggis's film "in the Valley of Elah" (2007), told me that Haggis "does things in extremes."
In king Hezekiah's fourth year, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria marched against Samaria and laid siege to it.
For all the SINS of Baasha, and the SINS of Elah his son, by which they sinned, and by which they made Israel to sin, in provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities.
