Joshua 19:8

and all the villages that were round about i.e. Simeon, not merely certain cities in the territory of Judah, but the whole country round the cities named, together with all the villages that were situated near them.

to Baalath-beer See above, ch. Joshua 15:24 or 29, = Baalin 1 Chronicles 4:33.

Ramath of the south Ramath, like Ramah and Ramoth, = a "height." This Ramath of the Negeb, or the South, is thought to be another name for Baalath-beer, and has been by some identified with the present ruins of Kurnub, situated on the slope of a low range of hills about 20 miles south-east of Beer-sheba.