Joshua 15:10

“And the border compassed from Baalah westward unto Mount Seir, etc.] Not that in Idumea, so famous for its being the seat of Esau, which lay remote from hence, but a third of that name near Kirjathjearim; and which Adrichomius f316 places on the borders of Azotus and Ashkelon: this compass is fetched from the north to the west: and passed along unto the side of the mount Jearim, which [is] Chesalon, on the north side; that is, on the north side of the mount, which went by both those names; and which Jerom f317 places on the borders of Aelia or Jerusalem; but it seems to be at a distance from thence, and near to Kirjathjearim, and had its name, as that, from the multitude of trees that grow…”

“Mount Seir is not the well-known range of Edom. The name ( “shaggy mountain”) is applicable to any rugged or well-wooded hill. Here it probably denotes the range which runs southwestward from Kirjath-jearim to the Wady Surar. Mount Jearim, i. e. “woody mountain,” is through its other name, Chesalon, identified with the modern “Kesla”. Beth-shemesh - i. e. “house of the sun,” called “Ir-shemesh” or “city of the sun” (Joshua 19:41; Compare 1 Kings 4:9), a place assigned to Dan, and one of the cities which fell by lot to the Levites Joshua 21:16. Beth-shemesh was the first place at which the ark rested after its return from the hands of the Philistines 1 Samuel 6:12. It was the residence of one…”

“Mount Seir - Not that of Edom, but another so called from some resemblance it had to it. Joshua 15:13”

“Bethshemesh: Placed by Eusebius ten miles east from Eleutheropolis, towards Nicopolis. Sa1 6:12-21 Timnah: Jos 15:57; Gen 38:13; Jdg 14:1, Jdg 14:5 Joshua 15:11”