Commentary on Joshua - Keil & Delitzsch - David Cox

Keil and Delitzsch <strong>Commentary</strong> on the Old Testament
Verse 2-6. Beersheba: see at Josh 15:28. Sheba is wanting in the Chronicles, but has
no doubt been omitted through a copyist's error, as Shema answers to it in Josh 15:26,
where it stands before Moladah just as Sheba does here. - On the names in vv. 3-6a,
see the exposition of Josh 15:28-32. - The sum total given in v. 6b, viz., thirteen
towns, does not tally, as there are fourteen names. On these differences, see the
remarks on Josh 15:32
(p. 118, the note).
Verse 7. Ain and Rimmon were in the south land (Josh 15:32), Ether and Ashan in the
lowlands (Josh 15:42).
Verse 8-9. In addition to the towns mentioned, the Simeonites received all the
villages round about the towns to Baalath-beer , the Ramah of the south. This place,
up to which the territory of the Simeonites extended, though without its being
actually assigned to the Simeonites, is simply called Baal in 1 Chron 4:33, and is
probably the same as Bealoth in Josh 15:24, though its situation has not yet been
determined (see at Josh 15:24). It cannot be identified, however, with Ramet el Khulil
, an hour to the north of Hebron, which Roediger supposes to be the Ramah of the
south, since the territory of Simeon, which was situated in the Negeb, and had only
two towns in the shephelah , cannot possibly have extended into the mountains to a
point on the north of Hebron. So far as the situation is concerned, V. de Velde would
be more likely to be correct, when he identifies Rama of the south with Tell Lekiyeh
on the north of Beersheba, if this conjecture only rested upon a better foundation than
the untenable assumption, that Baalath-beer is the same as the Baalath of Dan in v.
44.
Joshua 19:10-16
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