Joshua 15:37

“Zenan, etc.] Here begins another list or catalogue of the cities in the valley or plain. Zenan perhaps is the same with Zaanan, (<330101>Micah 1:11); and Hadashah was so small a city in Judea in the times of the Misnic doctors, that they say f348 it had but fifty dwellings in it; and Jerom speaks f349 of a place called Adasa, in the tribe of Judah, in his times a village near Guphua; it should be Taphna; and Migdalgad, of which we nowhere else read; some think it had its name from some famous exploit done here by one of the tribe of Gad, who came over with Joshua to assist in the war, as the stone of Bohan the Reubenite, (<061506>Joshua 15:6).”

“List of the towns of the tribe of Judah. These are arranged in four divisions, according to the natural features of the district; namely,, those of the Negeb or south country Joshua 15:21-32; of “the valley,” or “the plain” (“Shephelah”, Joshua 15:33-47); of “the mountains” Joshua 15:48-60; and of “the wilderness” Joshua 15:61-62. Many of the identifications are still conjectural only. Joshua 15:21-32. The Negeb was for the most part rocky and arid, and cannot have been at any time very thickly populated. Joshua 15:21 Kabzeel was the native place of Benaiah 2 Samuel 23:20, who was famous as a slayer of lions. The Negeb was a principal haunt of these beasts. Joshua 15:24 Telem may be the…”