=71.= _Golan_] a city of refuge, Joshua xxi. 27. The name of this city is still preserved in _Jolan_ (_Jaulan_), the name of a district east of Jordan extending from Hermon to the Jarmuk. _Ashtaroth_] mentioned with Edrei in Joshua ix. 10 as the capital of Og, king of Bashan. The name testifies to the worship of Ashtoreth. ⁷²and out of the tribe of Issachar; Kedesh with her suburbs, Daberath with her suburbs; =72.= Kedesh] Read =Kishion= with Joshua xxi. 28 (so Joshua xix. 20). _Daberath_] the modern Dabūriyeh at the foot of Mount Tabor. ⁷³and Ramoth with her suburbs, and Anem with her suburbs: =73.= _Ramoth_] _Jarmuth_, Joshua xxi. 29; or perhaps _Remeth_, Joshua xix. 21. _Anem_] Read =En-gannim= with Joshua xxi. 29. Probably the modern large village of _Jenîn_ on the edge of the plain of Esdraelon. ⁷⁴and out of the tribe of Asher; Mashal with her suburbs, and Abdon with her suburbs; =74.= _Mashal_] _Mishal_, Joshua xxi. 30 (compare Joshua xix. 26, Revised Version). ⁷⁵and Hukok with her suburbs, and Rehob with her suburbs: =75.= _Hukok_] Read =Helkath= with Joshua xxi. 31 (compare Joshua xix. 25). ⁷⁶and out of the tribe of Naphtali; Kedesh in Galilee with her suburbs, and Hammon with her suburbs, and Kiriathaim with her suburbs. =76.= _Kedesh in Galilee_] called _Kedesh-naphtali_ in Judges iv. 6; it is the modern _Kedes_, situated on a lofty plateau overlooking the waters of _Ḥūleh_ (_Merom_). It was a city of refuge, Joshua xxi. 32. _Hammon ... Kiriathaim_] In Joshua xxi. 32, _Hammoth-dor ... Kartan_. =77‒81= (= Joshua xxi. 34‒39). THE [TWELVE] CITIES OF THE SONS OF MERARI. ⁷⁷Unto the rest of _the Levites_, the sons of Merari, _were given_, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Rimmono with her suburbs, Tabor with her suburbs: =77.= _Rimmono ... Tabor_] Read =Rimmon= or =Rimmonah=. Against these two names there are four in Joshua xxi. 34, 35; _Jokneam_, _Kartah_, _Dimnah_ and _Nahalal_. As regards the number of the cities the text of Joshua is certainly right. See Critical Note on verses 54‒81. _Tabor_] No city, but only a mountain named _Tabor_ is known to us, as having certainly existed in Old Testament times. A city however named _Tabor_ existed on the mountain as early as 218 B.C., and it may have been as old as the times of the Chronicler. Mount Tabor was in Issachar near the border of Zebulun. For _Nahalal_, the reading in Joshua, compare Joshua xix. 15; Judges i. 30. Compare Bädeker, _Palestine_⁵, p. 250. ⁷⁸and beyond the Jordan at Jericho, on the east side of Jordan, _were given them_, out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the wilderness with her suburbs, and Jahzah with her suburbs, ⁷⁹and Kedemoth with her suburbs, and Mephaath with her suburbs: =78.= _at Jericho_] The crossing-place of the Jordan nearest to Reuben was at Jericho. For the phrase _Jordan at Jericho_ compare Joshua xvi. 1.