Commentary on Joshua - Keil & Delitzsch - David Cox

Keil and Delitzsch <strong>Commentary</strong> on the Old Testament
6:58, is also unknown.
(Note: Knobel imagines Remeth , whose name signifies height, to be the village of Wezar , on one of the
western peaks of Gilboa ( Seetzen , ii. p. 156; Rob. iii. p. 166, and Bibl. Res. p. 339), as the name also
signifies "a lofty, inaccessible mountain, or a castle situated upon a mountain." This is certainly not
impossible, but it is improbable. For this Mahometan village evidently derived its name from the fact that
it has the appearance of a fortification when seen from a distance (see Ritter , Erdk. xv. p. 422). The name
has nothing in common therefore with the Hebrew Remeth , and the travellers quoted by him say nothing
at all about the ruins which he mentions in connection with Wezar (Wusar).)
En-gannim, which was also allotted to the Levites (Josh 21:29; also 1 Chr. 5:58 ,
where it is called Anem ), has been associated by Robinson (iii. p. 155) with the
Ginai'a of Josephus , the present Jenin. The name En-gannim signifies fountain of
gardens, and Jenin stands at the southern side of the plain of Jezreel in the midst of
gardens and orchards, which are watered by a copious spring (see Seetzen , ii. pp.
156ff.); "unless perhaps the place referred to is the heap of ruins called Um el
Ghanim , on the south-east of Tabor, mentioned by Berggren , ii. p. 240, and Van de
Velde , Mem. p. 142" ( Knobel ). En-chadda and Beth-pazzez are only mentioned
here, and have not yet been discovered. According to Knobel , the former of the two
may possibly be either the place by Gilboa called Judeideh , with a fountain named
Ain Judeideh ( Rob. Bibl. Res. p. 337), or else Beit-kad or Kadd near Gilboa,
mentioned by Seetzen (ii. p. 159) and Robinson (iii. p. 157).
Verse 22-23. "And the boundary touched Tabor, Sahazim, and Beth-shemesh."
Tabor is not the mountain of that name, but a town upon the mountain, which was
given to the Levites, though not by Issachar but by Zebulun (1 Chron 6:62), and was
fortified afresh in the Jewish wars ( Josephus , Bell. Jud. iv. 1, 8). In this passage,
however, it appears to be reckoned as belonging to Issachar, since otherwise there are
not sixteen cities named. At the same time, as there are several discrepancies between
the numbers given and the names actually mentioned, it is quite possible that in this
instance also the number sixteen is incorrect. In any case, Tabor was upon the border
of Zebulun (v. 12), so that it might have been allotted to this tribe. There are still the
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