Commentary on Joshua - Keil & Delitzsch - David Cox

Keil and Delitzsch <strong>Commentary</strong> on the Old Testament
from the Jezreel in the plain of Esdraelon, has not yet been discovered. This also
applies to Jokdeam and Zanoah , which are only met with here.
Verse 57. Cain ( Hakkain ) is possibly the same as Jukin , on the south-east of
Hebron ( Rob. ii. p. 449). Gibeah cannot be the Gabatha near Bethlehem, mentioned
in the Onom. ( s. v. Gabathaon ), or the Gibea mentioned by Robinson (ii. p. 327),
i.e., the village of Jeba , on a hill in the Wady el Musurr, as this does not come within
the limits of the present group; it must rather be one of the two places ( Gebaa and
Gebatha ) described as viculi contra orientalem plagam Daromae , though their
situation has not yet been discovered. Timnah , probably the place already mentioned
in Gen 38:12ff., has not been discovered.
Verse 58,59. The fourth group of six towns, on the north of Hebron or of the last two
groups. - Halhul , according to the Onom. ( s. v. Elul ) a place near Hebron named
Alula , has been preserved in the ruins of Halhûl , an hour and a half to the north of
Hebron ( Rob. i. p. 319, ii. p. 186, and Bibl. Res. p. 281). Beth-zur , which was
fortified by Rehoboam (2 Chron 11:7), and is frequently mentioned in the time of the
Maccabees as a border defence against the Idumaeans (1 Macc. 4:29, 61, etc.), was
twenty (? fifteen) Roman miles from Jerusalem, according to the Onom. ( s. v. Bethzur
), on the road to Hebron. It is the present heap of ruins called Beit-zur on the
north-west of Halhûl ( Rob. Bibl. Res. pp. 276-7; Ritter , Erdk. xvi. pp. 236, 267-8).
Gedor , the ruins of Jedûr , an hour and a half to the north-west ( Rob. ii. p. 338; Bibl.
Res. pp. 282-3).
Verse 59. Maarath and Eltekon have not yet been discovered. Beth-anoth (probably
a contraction of Beth-ayanoth ) has been discovered by Wolcott in the ruins of Beitanum
, on the east of Halhûl ( Rob. Bibl. Res.
p. 279; cf. Pal. ii. p. 186).
Between vv. 59 and 60, the fifth group of towns given in the Septuagint is wanting in
the Masoretic text. This group lay to the north of the fourth, and reached as far as
Jerusalem, It comprised a district in which even now
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