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Keil and Delitzsch <strong>Commentary</strong> on the Old Testament Verse 48-60. The towns on the mountains are divided into five, or more correctly, into six groups. The mountains of Judah, which rise precipitously from the Negeb, between the hilly district on the west, which is reckoned as part of the shephelah , and the desert of Judah, extending to the Dead Sea on the east (v. 61), attain the height of 3000 feet above the level of the sea, in the neighbourhood of Hebron, and run northwards to the broad wady of Beit-hanina, above Jerusalem. They are a large rugged range of limestone mountains, with many barren and naked peaks, whilst the sides are for the most part covered with grass, shrubs, bushes, and trees, and the whole range is intersected by many very fruitful valleys. Josephus describes it as abounding in corn, fruit, and wine; and to the present day it contains many orchards, olive grounds, and vineyards, rising in terraces up the sides of the mountains, whilst the valleys and lower grounds yield plentiful harvests of wheat, millet, and other kinds of corn. In ancient times, therefore, the whole of this district was thickly covered with towns (see Rob. ii. pp. 185, 191-2, and C. v. Raumer , Pal. pp. 45ff.). Verse 48-51. The first group consists of eleven towns on the south-west of the mountains. Verse 48. Shamir has probably been preserved in the ruins of Um Shaumerah , mentioned by Robinson (iii. App.), though the situation of these ruins has not yet been precisely determined. Jattir , which was given up to the priests (Josh 21:14), and is mentioned again in 1 Sam 30:27, is described in the Onom. ( s. v. Jether ) as a large placed inhabited by Christians, twenty miles from Eleutheropolis, in interiori Daroma juxta Malathan , - a description which suits the ruins of Attir , in the southern portion of the mountains (see Rob. ii. p. 194; called Ater by Seetzen , R. iii. p. 6). Socoh , two hours N.W. of this, the present Shuweikeh ( Rob. ii. p. 194), called Suêche by Seetzen (R. iii. p. 29), a village about four hours from Hebron. Verse 49. Dannah ( Sept., Syr., Renna ) is unknown. Knobel imagines that Dannah should be Danah , for Deanah, plur. Deanoth , which would then be suggestive of http://207.44.232.113/~bible/comment/ot/k&d/josh/jos100.html (1 of 3) [13/08/2004 01:18:45 p.m.]
Keil and Delitzsch <strong>Commentary</strong> on the Old Testament Zanute , the last inhabited place upon the mountains, five hours from Hebron, between Shuweikeh and Attir (see Rob. ii. p. 626; Seetzen , iii. p. 27, 29). Kirjathsannah , or Debir , has not been traced (see at Josh 10:38). Verse 50. Anab , on the north-east of Socoh (see at Josh 11:21). Eshtemoh , or Eshtemoa , which was ceded to the priests (Josh 21:14; 1 Chron 6:42), and is mentioned again in 1 Sam 30:28; 1 Chron 4:17,19, is the present Semua , an inhabited village, with remains of walls, and a castle of ancient date, on the east of Socoh ( Rob. ii. pp. 194, 626; Seetzen , iii. 28; and v. Schubert , R. ii. p. 458). Anim , contracted, according to the probable conjecture of Wilson , from Ayanim (fountains), a place still preserved in the ruins of the village of el Ghuwein , on the south of Semua , though Robinson erroneously connects it with Ain (v. 32: see Rob. Pal. ii. p. 626). Verse 51. Goshen, Holon , and Giloh , are still unknown. On Goshen , see at Josh 10:41. Holon was given up to the priests (Josh 21:15; 1 Chron 6:43); and Giloh is mentioned in 2 Sam 15:12 as the birth-place of Ahithophel. Verse 52-54. The second group of nine towns, to the north of the former, in the country round Hebron. Verse 52. Arab is still unknown; for we cannot connect it, as Knobel does, with the ruins of Husn el Ghurab in the neighbourhood of Semua ( Rob. i. p. 312), as these ruins lie within the former group of towns. Duma , according to Eusebius the largest place in the Daromas in his time, and seventeen miles from Eleutheropolis, is probably the ruined village of Daumeh , by the Wady Dilbeh ( Rob. i. p. 314), which is fourteen miles in a straight line to the south-east of Eleutheropolis according to the map. Es'an (Eshean) can hardly be identified with Asan (1 Chron 4:32), as Van de Velde supposes, but is more likely Korasan (1 Sam 30:30). In that case we might connect it with the ruins of Khursah , on the north-west of Daumeh, two hours and a half to the south-west of Hebron ( Rob. iii. p. 5). As the Septuagint reading is Doma' , Knobel conjectures that Eshean is a corrupt reading for Shema (1 Chron 2:43), and http://207.44.232.113/~bible/comment/ot/k&d/josh/jos100.html (2 of 3) [13/08/2004 01:18:45 p.m.]
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