[470]. If the name of Ishbi-benob, ‘my seat is in Nob,’ is correct, ‘Gob’ must be corrected into ‘Nob.’ But perhaps it is the name of the giant which needs correction.
[471]. See the map given by Stade, Geschichte des Volkes Israel, p. 268, and my ‘Topography of Præ-exilic Jerusalem’ in the Quarterly Statement of the Palestine Exploration Fund, Oct. 1883, pp. 215 sqq.
[472]. Bliss, ‘Excavations at Jerusalem’ in the Quarterly Statement of the Palestine Exploration Fund, Oct. 1896 and Jan. 1897.
[473]. Antiq. viii. 5, 3; C. Ap. i. 18.
[474]. It is, of course, possible that Abibal had been preceded by an earlier Hiram of whom we otherwise know nothing, and who is meant in 2 Sam. v. 11. It is also possible that the use of Hiram’s name in this passage is proleptic, derived from the fact that it was he who subsequently sent materials to David for the construction of the temple.
[475]. 1 Chron. xxii. 8.
[476]. 1 Kings v. 3.
[477]. 2 Sam. vi. 3. In Josh. xviii. 18 ‘Gibeah of Kirjath’ is given as one of the cities of Benjamin. Like most of the Egyptian and Babylonian cities it had a second and sacred name, Baalê-Judah, the city of ‘Baal of Judah’ (2 Sam. vi. 2).
[478]. The name of Obed-Edom, ‘the servant of Edom,’ shows that Edom was the name of a deity as well as of a country, like Ammi, the patron-god of Ammon, and it is met with in the monuments of Egypt. A papyrus (Pap. Leydens. i. 343. 7) states that Atum or Edom was the wife of the Canaanitish fire-god Reshpu, and one of the places in Palestine captured by Thothmes III. was Shemesh-Edom (No. 51), ‘the Sun-god is Edom’ (Records of the Past, new ser., v. p. 47).