Joshua 15:24

Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth,

Ziph. Wilton rejects this from the lists as an interpolation, since there is apparently no equivalent for the name in the Septuagint, and on other grounds more or less satisfactory.

(8) And Telem - identified by Reland ('Palaestina,' p. 1020) with Telaim (Joshua 15:24), and by Wilton with el-Kuseir (little castle or fortlet), which is occupied by the Arab tribe Dhullam (see Robinson's 'Biblical Researches,' 2:; p. 473, 617; also Wilson's 'Lands of the Bible,' 1:, p. 345).

(9) And Bealoth - Baalath-beer (Joshua 19:8) or Baal (1 Chronicles 4:33), [Septuagint, balmainan.] Its position is fixed by Wilton ('Negeb,' p. 91) in the neighbourhood of the last-mentioned town, Telem (el-Kuseir), at a ruin called 'Kurnub or Kurnou', (Lindsay), on the southern declivity of the 'swell or low ridge' which bears the name of Kubbet el-Baul (see also Robinson's, 'Biblical Researches,' 2:, p. 616; Wilson's 'Lands of the Bible,' 1:, p. 344; Bonar, 'Land of Promise,' pp. 84, 85; Lord Lindsay's 'Letters,' 2:, pp. 47, 48; Van de Velde, 'Syria and Palestine,' 2:, p. 130). The latter, however, finds Bealoth in an old fortress (el-Leohieh, or Lekieh) at the entrance of the hill-country, where it arrested his attention-as the outermost frontier stronghold toward the south.