2 Chronicles 20:2

on this side Syria R.V. from Syria (so LXX.). The text is corrupt, and the words are either a gloss on from beyond the seaor a corruption of the original reading. From Edomis an easy correction.

whichis En-gedi R.V. ( the same is En-gedi). Cp. G. A. Smith, Hist. Geographyas quoted above, and Bädekerp. 140. En-gedi is on the west coast of the Dead Sea at a point where a rugged pass leads up into the hill-country of Judah.

Hazazon-tamar Genesis 14:7. The name seems to describe the place as stonyand as containing palm-trees. It is in fact an oasis.