Commentary on Joshua - Keil & Delitzsch - David Cox

Keil and Delitzsch <strong>Commentary</strong> on the Old Testament
be carried on with any success. The term which Eusebius and Jerome employ for
Negeb in the Onom. is Daromas , but they carry it farther northwards than the Negeb
of the Old Testament (see Reland , Pal. Ill. pp. 185ff.). The numerous towns
mentioned in vv. 21-32 as standing in the Negeb , may none of them have been large
or of any importance. In the list before us we find that, as a rule, several names are
closely connected together by the copula vav , and in this way the whole may be
divided into four separate groups of towns.
Verse 21-23. First group of nine places. - V. 21. The towns "from," i.e., at "the end of
the tribe-territory of Judah, towards the territory of Edom." Kabzeel: the home of the
hero Benaiah (2 Sam 23:20), probably identical with Jakabzeel , which is mentioned
in Neh 11:25 in connection with Dibon , but has not been discovered. This also
applies to Eder and Jagur.
Verse 22. Kinah: also unknown. Knobel connects it with the town of the Kenites ,
who settled in the domain of Arad, but this is hardly correct; for which the exception
of Judg 1:16, where the Kenites are said to have settled in the south of Arad, though
not till after the division of the land, the Kenites are always found in the western
portion of the Negeb (1 Sam 15:6; 27:10; 30:29), whereas Kinah is unquestionably to
be looked for in the east. Dimonah , probably the same as Dibon (Neh 11:25);
possibly the ruins of el Dheib , on the south side of the wady of the same name, to the
north-east of Arad ( V. de Velde , Mem. p. 252), although Robinson (Pal. ii. p. 473)
writes the name Ehdeib. Adadah is quite unknown.
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