Verse 18
18. Beth-horon This lay westward from Michmash. On Beth-horon nether and upper, see Joshua 10:11; Joshua 16:3; Joshua 16:5.
The way of the border that looketh to the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness Or, as Keil translates: The way to the territory that rises above the valley, etc. The valley of Zeboim has not been fairly identified with any modern name, though one traveller (Grove, in Smith’s Dict.) gives worthy reasons for identifying it with a wild gorge through which he was conducted in 1858 from Jericho to Michmash. This gorge, lying to the east of Michmash, bears the Arabic name of Shuk ed-Dubba, equivalent to the Hebrews גי הצבעים , valley of hyenas. As the other two parties went one to the north towards Ophrah, and the other west towards Beth-horon, we naturally suppose that the third took their route towards the east over the heights that look towards the southeast, and very likely along this very gorge. According to this view the wilderness would be the wild district between Michmash and Jericho.
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