Verse 2
2. Beer-sheba See on Joshua 15:28. Sheba is probably a repetition of the copyist, otherwise there would be fourteen cities instead of thirteen, as stated in Joshua 19:6.
As the cities of Simeon were taken out of the portion originally assigned to Judah, all whose sites are now known are described in the notes on chap. 15 . Some of the names here given do not appear there, some may be different names of the same place, but in the absence of any certain knowledge of them we do best to abstain from mere conjectural comments.
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