Commentary on Joshua - Keil & Delitzsch - David Cox

Keil and Delitzsch <strong>Commentary</strong> on the Old Testament
Verse 53. Janum is still unknown. Beth-tappuah has been preserved in the village of
Teffuh , about two hours to the west of Hebron ( Rob. ii. p. 428). Apheka has not been
discovered.
Verse 54. Humtah is also unknown. Kirjath-arba , or Hebron: see at Josh 10:3. Zior
has also not been traced; though, "so far as the name is concerned, it might have been
preserved in the heights of Tugra , near to Hebron" ( Knobel ).
Verse 55-57. The third group of ten towns, to the east of both the former groups,
towards the desert.
Verse 55. Maon , the home of Nabal (1 Sam 25:2), on the border of the desert of
Judah, which is here called the desert of Maon (1 Sam 23:25), has been preserved in
Tell Maîn , on a conical mountain commanding an extensive prospect, east by north
of Semua, three hours and three-quarters to the S.S.E. of Hebron ( Rob. ii. p. 193).
Carmel , a town and mountain mentioned in the history of David, and again in the
time of Uzziah (1 Sam 15:12; 25:2ff.; 2 Chron 26:10). In the time of the Romans it
was a large place, with a Roman garrison ( Onom. ), and is the present Kurmul , on
the north-west of Maon, where there are considerable ruins of a very ancient date (
Rob.
ii. pp. 196ff.). Ziph , in the desert of that name, to which David fled from Saul (1 Sam
23:14ff., 26:2-3), was fortified by Rehoboam (2 Chron 11:8), and has been preserved
in the ruins upon the hill Ziph , an hour and three-quarters to the south-east of Hebron
( Rob. ii. p. 191). Juttah , which was assigned to the priests (Josh 21:16), and was a
vicus praegrandis Judaeorum in the time of the fathers ( Onom. s. v. Jethan ), was
eighteen Roman miles to the south (south-east) of Eleutheropolis, and is the present
Jutta or Jitta , a large Mahometan place with ruins, an hour and three-quarters to the
south of Hebron ( Seetzen , iii. p. 8; Rob. ii. p. 191, 628).
Verse 56. Jezreel , the home of Ahinoam (1 Sam 25:43; 27:3, etc.), a different place
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