Joshua 15:21

And the uttermost cities The writer commences with the cities at the extremity of the territory of Judah, the S.E. point of the Dead Sea, on the Edomite frontier.

toward the coast of Edom southward For "coast," see above, ch. Joshua 13:16. (a) Firstwe have a group of nine citieswithin the Negebat the south-east:

(1) Kabzeel= "which God gathers," the birth-place of Benaiah, one of David's heroes (2 Samuel 23:20); (2) Ederand (3) Jagurare altogether unknown; (4) Kinah, possibly the territory of the Kenites who settled at Arad; (5) Dimonah= Dibon(Nehemiah 11:25); (6) Adadah, identified by Robinson with Sudeid; (7) Kedesh, (8) Hazor, and (9) Ithnanare unknown.