Commentary on Joshua - Keil & Delitzsch - David Cox

Keil and Delitzsch <strong>Commentary</strong> on the Old Testament
the north-west of the lake of Huleh, or, according to Van de Velde (Reise. ii. p. 355),
nothing but a miserable farmstead upon a Tell at the south-west extremity of a wellcultivated
table-land, with a large quantity of antiquities about, viz., hewn stones,
relics of columns, sarcophagi, and two ruins of large buildings, with an open and
extensive prospect on every side (see also Rob. Bibl. Res. pp. 367ff.). Jokneam , near
Carmel , as a Levitical town in the territory of Zebulun (Josh 19:11; 21:34). Van de
Velde and Robinson (Bibl. Res. p. 114) suppose that they have found it in Tell
Kaimôn , on the eastern side of the Wady el Milh , at the north-west end of a chain of
hills running towards the south-east; this Tell being 200 feet high, and occupying a
very commanding situation, so that it governed the main pass on the western side of
Esdraelon towards the southern plain. Kaimôn is the Arabic form of the ancient
Cammoona' , Cimana , which Eusebius and Jerome describe in the Onom. as being
six Roman miles to the north of Legio , on the road to Ptolemais.
Joshua 12:23-24
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