.

355 In Judges i. 35 we read of the Amorites remaining in this district.

356 This name may be read various ways, as "Addamaru" or "Abu Amaru."
Perhaps the name "Ithamar" may be compared (Exod. vi. 23; xxviii.
1). See also Yabitiri of Joppa (Abiather?).

357 The only difficulty in identifying this place, "Ci el-ti," with
Keilah lies in the spelling with "Caph" instead of "Koph." The name
contains the required guttural found in the Hebrew; this has
disappeared from the modern name, "Kilah." The sign for "Ki" does
not seem to be used in these letters; and there are several other
instances of confusion of the two letters, as when "Ka" is written
for "Ca" ("thee") in a few cases.

358 "Ra" is apparently an Egyptian name. The order for withdrawal of the
troops appears to have arrived.

359 This quarrel between the King of Jerusalem, the King of Makkedah,
and the King of Keilah is probably early, before the appearance of
the Hebrews; for Adonizedek says that the sons of Labaya (103 B.)
were his contemporaries at that time, and Suyardata becomes his ally
(106 B.) in presence of the common danger. If "behind" means to the
west (the front being always the east), the attack was from the
Valley of Elah. Keilah has very rough mountains on the east, and is
easily reached on the west.

360 The meaning seems to be that Adonizedek had seized the flocks and
herds.

361 "Basmath," meaning "balsam" or "sweet," was no doubt a common
woman's name. It occurs as the name of Ishmael's daughter whom Esau
married (Gen. xxxvi. 3, 4, 13), and as that of one of Solomon's
daughters (1 Kings iv. 15). She may have been the wife of Milcilu,
King of Gezer, and pleads for her sons after her husband's death. He
had apparently been seized by the Hebrews (106 B.).

362 Zorah, now Sur'ah (Josh. xix. 41; Judges xiii. 2, etc.), was not far
south of Ajalon, and near Gezer on the southeast.

363 This name cannot be identified, as has been proposed, with that of
Abdasherah, since "Ashtoreth" and "Asherah" are different words.

364 If it is to be read simply as a syllabic name, it would be perhaps
"Musi-huna." There is a "Mes-hah" ("place of unction") in lower
Galilee. I have here supposed "huna" to come from the root "hana"
(Heb. "hanah"), "to inhabit."

365 "Tuser Att