Joshua 15:21

15:21 These cities were located at the southern extremity of Judah’s tribal land near the border of Edom: Kabzeel, Eder, Jagur,

Joshua 15:32

15:32 Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, and Rimmon – a total of twenty-nine cities and their towns.


tn Heb “and the cities were at the end of the tribe of the sons of Judah, at the border of Edom, to the south.”

tn The total number of names in the list is thirty-six, not twenty-nine. Perhaps (1) some of the names are alternatives (though the text appears to delineate clearly such alternative names here and elsewhere, see vv. 8, 9, 10, 13, 25b) or (2), more likely, later scribes added to a list originally numbering twenty-nine and failed to harmonize the concluding summary statement with the expanded list.