Eshtemoa] the modern es-Semu‘a, south of Hebron. Compare iv. 17.
⁵⁸and Hilen[¹] with her suburbs, Debir with her suburbs;
[¹] In Joshua xxi. 15, Holon.
58. Hilen] In Joshua xxi. 15, Holon.
Debir] identified with modern Dāharījeh, south-west of Hebron. It is called Kiriath-sepher (Judges i. 11) and Kiriath-sannah (Joshua xv. 49).
⁵⁹and Ashan[¹] with her suburbs, and Beth-shemesh with her suburbs:
[¹] In Joshua xxi. 16, Ain.
59. Ashan with her suburbs] Joshua xxi. 16 has Ain for Ashan, and adds, and Juttah with her suburbs. Compare the Critical Note above.
Beth-shemesh] Joshua xv. 10; 1 Samuel vi. 9; 2 Kings xiv. 11, 13 (= 2 Chronicles xxv. 21, 23). A town in the north-west of Judah, now ‘Ain Shems, situated at the point at which the hill-country of Judah begins, as one goes by the railway from Jaffa to Jerusalem (Bädeker, Palestine⁵, p. 14).
⁶⁰and out of the tribe of Benjamin; Geba with her suburbs, and Allemeth[³] with her suburbs, and Anathoth with her suburbs. All their cities throughout their families were thirteen cities.