2 Samuel 24:6

Gilead The mountainous district partly to the north and partly to the south of the River Jabbok.

the land of Tahtim-hodshi No such district is known, and the form of the words also makes it probable that the text is corrupt. Some conjecture that we should read (with some MSS. of the Sept.) to the land of the Hittites to Kedesh, the famous Hittite capital on the Orontes, but this seems too far north; others conjecture the regions below mount Hermon; and so forth. All that can be said is that some district, apparently east of the Jordan and north of Gilead, is meant.

Dan-jaan Perhaps the well known Dan, but if so, it is strange that it should here and nowhere else be distinguished as Dan-jaan. The meaning of jaanis uncertain, and perhaps we should follow the Sept. (A) and Vulg. in reading Dan-jaar, i.e. Dan in the forest.

and about to Zidon Shaping their course westward to the famous city of Zidon, the extreme north-western limit of the kingdom, on the border of Asher (Joshua 19:28), but never occupied by that tribe (Judges 1:31). Zidon was anciently the most important city of Phoenicia, and hence the Phoenicians are generally called Zidonians in the O. T. (Joshua 13:6; Judges 18:7; 1 Kings 5:6); but at this time it was inferior and probably subject to Tyre.