Joshua 19:15

And Kattath, and Nahallal ,.... Of the two first of these we read nowhere else, but in Joshua 21:34 ,

and Shimron was a royal city, the king of which Joshua took and hanged, Joshua 11:1 ,

and Idalah is a place Bochart conjectures F20 Canaan, l. 1. c. 3. col. 356. where the goddess Venus was worshipped, Idalia being one of her names:

and Bethlehem is a different place from that which was the birthplace of our Lord, called Bethlehem of Judah, to distinguish it from this:

twelve cities with their villages ; more are named, but some of them belonged to other tribes, and only lay on the borders of this; and others might not be properly cities, but small towns.