Joshua - 15:22



22 Kinah, Dimonah, Adadah,

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Explanation and meaning of Joshua 15:22.

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And Cina and Dimona and Adada,
Et Cina, et Dimona, et Adada,

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And Kinah,.... Of this city we read of nowhere else:
and Dimonah; the second city is thought to be the same with Dibon, Nehemiah 11:25; and Jerom (b) observes, that a place elsewhere was indifferently called in his time Dibon and Dimon;
and Adadah; the last of these cities is nowhere met with.
(b) Comment. in Esaiam, c. 15. 9.

Kinah: also unknown. Knobel connects it with the town of the Kenites, who settled in the domain of Arad, but this is hardly correct; for which the exception of Judges 1:16, where the Kenites are said to have settled in the south of Arad, though not till after the division of the land, the Kenites are always found in the western portion of the Negeb (1-Samuel 15:6; 1-Samuel 27:10; 1-Samuel 30:29), whereas Kinah is unquestionably to be looked for in the east. Dimonah, probably the same as Dibon (Nehemiah 11:25); possibly the ruins of el Dheib, on the south side of the wady of the same name, to the north-east of Arad (V. de Velde, Mem. p. 252), although Robinson (Pal. ii. p. 473) writes the name Ehdeib. Adadah is quite unknown.

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