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Keil and Delitzsch <strong>Commentary</strong> on the Old Testament and ceded to the Levites. If we add to this the fact that there are two large gaps in our Masoretic text in Josh 15:59-60, and 21:35, which proceed from copyists, and also that many errors occur in the numbers given in other historical books of the Old Testament, we are not warranted in tracing the differences in question to any other cause than errors in the text.) Verse 33-47. Towns in the lowland or shephelah. - The lowland ( shephelah ), which is generally rendered hee (NT:3588) pedinee' (NT:3977) in the Sept. , rarely to' pedio'n (Deut 1:7), but which is transferred as a proper name hee Sefeela' in Obad 19; Jer 32:44; 33:13, as well as in 1 Macc. 12:38, where even Luther has Sephela , is the name given to the land between the mountains of Judah and the Mediterranean Sea-a broad plain of undulating appearance, intersected by heights and low ranges of hills, with fertile soil, in which corn fields alternate with meadows, gardens, and extensive olive groves. It is still tolerably well cultivated, and is covered with villages, which are situated for the most part upon the different hills. Towards the south, the shephelah was bounded by the Negeb (v. 21); on the north, it reached to Ramleh and Lydda, or Diospolis, where the plain of Sharon began-a plain which extended as far as Carmel, and was renowned for the beauty of its flowers. Towards the east the hills multiply and shape themselves into a hilly landscape, which forms the intermediate link between the mountains and the plain, and which is distinguished from the shephelah itself, in Josh 10:40 and 12:8, under the name of Ashedoth , or slopes , whereas here it is reckoned as forming part of the shephelah. This hilly tract is more thickly studded with villages than even the actual plain (See Rob. Pal. ii. p. 363, and iii. p. 29.) The towns in the shephelah are divided into four groups. Verse 33-36. The first group contains the towns in the northern part of the hilly region or slopes, which are http://207.44.232.113/~bible/comment/ot/k&d/josh/jos96.html (2 of 2) [13/08/2004 01:18:40 p.m.]
Keil and Delitzsch <strong>Commentary</strong> on the Old Testament Verse 33-36. The first group contains the towns in the northern part of the hilly region or slopes, which are reckoned as forming part of the lowland: in all, fourteen towns. The most northerly part of this district was given up to the tribe of Dan on the second division (Josh 19:41ff.). Eshtaol and Zoreah , which were assigned to the tribe of Dan (Dan 19:41 ), and were partly inhabited by Danites (Judg 13:25; 18:2,8,11) and partly by families of Judah, who had gone out from Kirjath-jearim (1 Chron 1:53; 4:2), probably after the removal of the 600 Danites to Laish-Dan (Josh 19:47; Judg 18:1), were situated, according to the Onom. ( s. v. Esthaul and Saara ), ten Roman miles to the north of Eleutheropolis, on the road to Nicopolis. Zoreah , the home of Samson, who was buried between Zoreah and Eshtaol (Judg 13:2; 16:31), was fortified by Rehoboam, and still inhabited by Judaeans after the captivity (2 Chron 11:10; Neh 11:29); it has been preserved in the ruins of Surá , at the southwestern end of the mountain range which bounds the Wady es Surar on the north ( Rob. ii. p. 341, and Bibl. Res. p. 153). Eshtaol has probably been preserved in Um Eshteiyeh , to the south-west ( Rob. ii. p. 342). Ashnah is possibly to be read Ashvah , according to the LXX, Cod. Vat. ( A'ssa ). In that case it might resemble a town on the east of Zorea ( Tobler , p. 180), as Knobel supposes. Verse 34. Zanoah was still inhabited by Judaeans after the captivity (Neh 11:30; 3:13), and is the present Zanua , not far from Zoreah, towards the east (see Rob. ii. p. 343). Engannim and Tappuah are still unknown. Enam , the same as Enaim (Gen 38:14: rendered "an open place"), on the road from Adullam to Timnah on the mountains (v. 57), has not yet been discovered. Verse 35. Jarmuth , i.e., Jarmûk; see Josh 10:3. Adullam has not yet been discovered with certainty (see at Josh 12:15). Socoh , which was fortified by Rehoboam, and taken by the Philistines in the reign of Ahaz (2 Chron 11:7; 28:18), is the present Shuweikeh by the Wady Sumt, half an hour to the south-west of Jarmûk , three hours and a half to the south-west of Jerusalem (see Rob. ii. pp. 343, 349). The Onom. ( s. v. Socoh ) mentions two viculi named Sochoth , one upon the mountain, the other in the plain, nine Roman miles from Eleutheropolis on the road to Jerusalem. On Azekah , http://207.44.232.113/~bible/comment/ot/k&d/josh/jos97.html (1 of 3) [13/08/2004 01:18:41 p.m.]
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