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Joshua 15:24, 55

1 Samuel 23:14-15, 24

1 Samuel 26:2

(battlement), the name of two towns in Judah

  1. In the south, named between Ithnan and Telem (Joshua 15:24). It does not appear again in the history, nor has any trace of has been met with.
  2. In the highland district, named between Carmel and Juttah (Joshua 15:55). The place is immortalized by its connection with David (1 Samuel 23:14-15, 24; 26:2). These passages show that at that time it had near it a wilderness (i.e. a waste pasture-ground) and a wood. The latter has disappeared, but the former remains. The name of Zif is found about three miles south of Hebron, attached to a rounded hill of some 100 feet in height, which is called Tell Zif.

Smith's Bible Names Dictionary (1866)

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