Joshua 15:29

Baalah A fourth groupis added of thirteen placeswhich lay to the westand south-west:

(1) Baalah, called Balah(ch. Joshua 19:3) and Bilhah(1 Chronicles 4:29); (2) Iim, unknown; (3) Azem= "firmness" or "strength" (ch. Joshua 19:3); (4) Eltolad= Tolad(1 Chronicles 4:29), unknown; (5) Chesil= Bethul(Joshua 19:4) = Bethuel(1 Chronicles 4:30); (6) Hormah, or Zephath(comp. Joshua 12:14); (7) Ziklag= "wilderness of destruction" (Gesenius), which afterwards came into the possession of Achish, king of Gath, who presented it to David (1 Samuel 27:6), and was burnt by the Amalekites (1 Samuel 30:1); (8) Madmannah= possibly to el-Minyây, south of Gaza, on the route of the pilgrims during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; (9) Sansannah, unknown; (10) Lebaoth= Beth-lebaoth (Joshua 19:6; 1 Chronicles 4:31), perhaps Lebhem, eight hours south of Gaza; (11) Shilhim= el-Scheriat, about midway between Gaza and Beer-sheba; (12) Ain; (13) Rimmon; in ch. Joshua 19:7; 1 Chronicles 4:32, these are treated as one place, and comp. Nehemiah 11:29. Rimmon has been supposed to be represented by Um er-Rumamim, about three hours north of Beersheba.