Commentary on Joshua - Keil & Delitzsch - David Cox

Keil and Delitzsch <strong>Commentary</strong> on the Old Testament
see at Josh 10:10.
Verse 36. Sharaim , which was on the west of Socoh and Azekah, according to 1
Sam 17:52, and is called Dakari'm or Dargarei'm in the Sept. , is probably to be
sought for in the present Tell Zakariya and the village of Kefr Zakariya opposite,
between which there is the broad deep valley called Wady Sumt, which is only
twenty minutes in breadth ( Rob. ii. p. 350). This is the more probable as the Hebrew
name is a dual. Adithaim is unknown. Gederah is possibly the same as the Gederoth
which was taken by the Philistines in the time of Ahaz (2 Chron 28:18), and the
Gedrus of the Onom. ( s. v. Gaedur , or Gahedur ), ten Roman miles to the south of
Diospolis, on the road to Eleutheropolis, as the Gederoth in v. 41 was in the actual
plain, and therefore did not stand between Diospolis and Eleutheropolis.
Gederothaim is supposed by Winer, Knobel , and others, to be an ancient gloss. This
is possible no doubt, but it is not certain, as neither the omission of the name from the
Sept. , nor the circumstance that the full number of towns is given as fourteen, and
that this is not the number obtained if we reckon Gederothaim, can be adduced as a
decisive proof, since this difference may have arisen in the same manner as the
similar discrepancy in v. 32.
Verse 37-41. The second group, containing the towns of the actual plain in its full
extent from north to south, between the hilly region and the line of coast held by the
Philistines: sixteen towns in all.
Verse 37. Zenan , probably the same as Zaanan (Mic 1:11), is supposed by Knobel to
be the ruins of Chirbet-es-Senat , a short distance to the north of Beit-jibrin ( Tobler ,
Dritte Wand. p. 124). Hadashah , according to the Mishnah Erub. v. vi. the smallest
place in Judah, containing only fifty houses, is unknown, and a different place from
the Adasa of 1 Macc. 7:40, 45, and Joseph. Ant. xii. 10, 5, as this was to the north of
Jerusalem ( Onom. ) . - Migdal-gad is unknown. Knobel supposes it to be the small
hill called Jedeideh , with ruins upon it, towards the north of Beit-jibrin ( V. de Velde
, R. ii. pp. 162, 188).
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