Joshua 15:37

Zenan, and Hadashah, and Migdalgad,

Zenan, х Tsªnaan (H6799) or Tsa'ªnaan (H6630), place of flocks (Micah 1:11; Reland, 'Palaestina' p.

1058); Septuagint, Senna]. It stood, as may be inferred from the towns with which it is here associated, on the west coast, and has been supposed by Porter to have occupied the site of a small village, Jenin; but by Schwartz with another village, one mile southeast of Mareshah, called by him Zan-abra, and by Robinson ('Biblical Researches,' 3:, Appendix, p. 117; 'Arabic List of Towns between the Mountains and the Plain of Gaza') es-Senabirah.

Hadashah, [Septuagint, Adassan]. The Talmud, quoted by Reland ('Palaestina,' p. 701) says that it was an insignificant village, comprising no more than 50 houses. It was in all probability the Adasa of Maccabean story, situated about 30 furlongs west from Beth-horon (Josephine, 'Antiquities,' b. 12:, ch. 10:, sec. 5).

Migdal-gad, [tower of Gad; Septuagint, Magadalgad] - the Magdala where the Syrians were defeated by Pharaoh-necho (Herodotus, b. 2:, ch. clix.), northwest of Lachish, identified with Mejdel, one of the largest and most flourishing towns in the west of Palestine, surrounded by extensive gardens and orchards, but exhibiting at the same time, in its broken columns and large hewn stones, the relics of an ancient site. It stands two miles east of Ascalon (Porter's 'Handbook of Syria and Palestine,' p. 272; Van de Velde, 2:, p.

177).