Judges 1:35

would dwell See Judges 1:27 note.

mount Heres i.e. -mount of the sun," probably the same as Ir-shemesh, i.e. -city of the sun" Joshua 19:41, and Beth-shemesh, i.e. -temple of the sun" 1 Kings 4:9, both names occurring along with Ayyalon and Shaalbim in these passages. The site may be identified with the mod. -Ain-shems, in the W. eṣ-Ṣarâr, opposite Ṣar-a (Zorah).

Aijalon Joshua 10:12; Joshua 19:42 (in Dan), the mod. Yâlô, on the S. side of the broad -valley of Ayyalon," now called Merj (-meadow of") ibn -Umar, 14 m. W. of Jerusalem. According to the Chronicler the town was occupied by Benjamin 1 Chronicles 8:13, fortified by Rehoboam 2 Chronicles 11:10, and taken from Ahaz by the Philistines ib.2 Chronicles 28:18. The Amarna tablets mention it as Aialuna (nos. 173 and 180 -fields of A."), and Shishak (1 Kings 14:25) enumerates it among the conquered cities of Judah, Aiyurun = Ayyalon (Müller, As. u. Eur., p. 166).

Shaalbim Cf. Joshua 19:42; 1 Kings 4:9. The situation of the mod. Selbît ̣ is suitable, but the names are dissimilar.

prevailed lit. -was heavy," as 1 Samuel 5:6; 1 Samuel 5:11. The house of Joseph, i.e. the Northern Kingdom, whose boundaries reached these towns, reduced them to forced labour. They became Israelite possessions, however, before the division of the kingdoms, 1 Kings 4:9; 1 Samuel 6:12 ff. (Beth-shemesh).