=22.= _and Joash, and Saraph, who_, etc.] We find no other trace of these two as rulers of Moab. The Targum fancifully identified them with Mahlon and Chilion of Ruth i. 2, 4. For a conjecture as to the cause of their presence in Moab, see Macalister, _Palestine Exploration Fund, Quarterly Statement_, 1905, p. 340. _and Jashubi-lehem_] render, with _Vulgate_, =who returned to Bethlehem=, a translation which requires only an easy emendation of the present Hebrew text. ²³These were the potters, and the inhabitants¹ of Netaim and Gederah: there they dwelt with the king for his work. ¹ Or, _those that dwelt among plantations and hedges_. =23.= _there they dwelt with the king for his work_] In the days of the kingdom the families were clients of the king and did his work; compare 1 Kings vii. 46. The simplicity of this statement seems to have been a stumbling-block to the early translators who paraphrase; LXX., _They were strong in his kingdom and dwelt there_; Targum, _They made their dwelling there with the Shekinah of the King of the World for the practice of the Law._ =24‒27.= THE GENEALOGY OF SIMEON. ²⁴The sons of Simeon; Nemuel¹, and Jamin, Jarib², Zerah³, Shaul: ²⁵Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son. ²⁶And the sons of Mishma; Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son. ²⁷And Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brethren had not many children, neither did all their family multiply, like to the children of Judah. ¹ In Genesis xlvi. 10, Exodus vi. 15, _Jemuel_. ² In Genesis xlvi. 10, _Jachin_. ³ Genesis xlvi. 10, _Zohar_. =24‒27.= _The sons of Simeon_] With unimportant variations in the names, the five sons of Simeon are mentioned also in Genesis xlvi. 10, Exodus vi. 15, and Numbers xxvi. 12, 13. A sixth son, Ohad, is given by the list in Genesis. As the mother of one, Shaul, was a Canaanitess (Genesis xlvi. 10) and Mibsam and Mishma are also reckoned Ishmaelites (i. 29, 30), the tribe of Simeon contained marked non-Israelite elements. This is the more natural by reason of its location in the extreme south of Palestine. =27.= _six daughters_] LXX. _three daughters_. =28‒33= (= Joshua xix. 2‒8). THE TERRITORY OF SIMEON. ²⁸And they dwelt at Beer-sheba, and Moladah, and Hazar-shual; =28.= _Beer-sheba_] at the southern extremity of Palestine, as Dan was at the northern (1 Samuel iii. 20). ²⁹and at Bilhah, and at Ezem, and at Tolad; =29.= _Tolad_] In Joshua xix. 4 _Eltolad_. ³⁰and at Bethuel, and at Hormah, and at Ziklag; =30.= _Bethuel_] compare Genesis xxii. 22. In Joshua xix. 4 _Bethul_. In 1 Samuel xxx. 27 _Bethel_ (not the famous Bethel near Jerusalem). _Hormah_] Numbers xiv. 45, xxi. 3; Judges i. 17. _Ziklag_] 1 Samuel xxvii. 6. The site is not certainly identified.