Jerome (347–420) describes it as part of the territory of the Dan, transcribing its name at that time as Selebi, a form also used by Josephus (37-c.

[14] In the centre of the mosaic is a mountain which is thought to be a depiction of Mount Gerizim, the holiest site in Samaritanism.

[17] In 1838, it was noted as Selbit, a Muslim village in the Ibn Humar area in the District of Er-Ramleh.

[22] The houses in Salbit were made of adobe and stone and were grouped around the village center where the mosque, suq and elementary school was located.

[24] During the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and the 1948 Palestinian expulsion from Lydda and Ramle, some of those forcibly expelled were bussed to Latrun on the front lines and from there ordered to walk northward to Salbit.

[25] The Lydda death march, as it also became known as,[26] brought hundreds of refugee families to Salbit where they took shelter in a fig grove and were given water and rest for the night before trucks from the Arab Legion began moving some of the families to a Palestinian refugee camp in Ramallah.