Footnote 348: See Judg. xvii. 5; Hos. iii. 4. Footnote 349: 1 Sam. ii. 18, xxii. 18, xxiii. 9, xxx. 7, 8. Footnote 350: Judg. vi. 24, viii. 27. Footnote 351: See Judg. ix. 1, 28. Footnote 352: 2 Sam. xx. 14. The reading of the latter passage, however, is not certain. Footnote 353: See Judg. ix. 41. Verse 31 should be translated, Zebul ‘sent messengers unto Abimelech to Arumah.’ Footnote 354: The name of Jobaal, ‘Yahveh is Baal,’ has been preserved in the Septuagint. Its signification has caused it to be omitted in the Massoretic text where we have only _ben-’ebed_, ‘the son of a slave,’ corresponding to the expression ‘son of a nobody,’ which we meet with in the Assyrian inscriptions. Footnote 355: It is here called the _Migdal Shechem_ or ‘Tower of Shechem,’ but seems to have been the same as the _Millo_ of _v._ 6. The fort would have stood in the same relation to Shechem that the ‘stronghold of Zion’ taken by David stood to Jerusalem. It was probably built just outside the walls of the town. We may compare also the ‘Millo’ constructed by Solomon to defend his palace and the temple (1 Kings ix. 15). Footnote 356: See 2 Sam. xi. 21. Footnote 357: See Judg. x. 11, 12. All records of the wars with the Zidonians and the Maonites have perished. Perhaps Professor Hommel is right in identifying the Maonites with the people of Ma’ân in Southern Arabia, whose power waned before the rise of that of Sheba, and extended to the frontiers of Palestine (_Aufsätze und Abhandlungen sur Kunde der Sprachen, Literaturen und der Geschichte des vorderen Orients_, pp. 2, 47). Footnote 358: Numb. xxvi. 23, 26. Footnote 359: Had the southern Beth-lehem been meant, it would have been called, as elsewhere in the book of Judges, Beth-lehem-Judah. Footnote 360: Numb. xxxii. 41; Deut. iii. 4, 14. In Deut. iii. 4, the ‘cities’ of Argob are described as sixty in number, which in Josh. xiii. 30 are identified with ‘the towns of Jair which are in Bashan.’ This, however, is incorrect, as it was thirty villages and not sixty cities that were conquered by Jair. Footnote 361: This must mean that he had claimed a portion of his father’s inheritance from the legitimate sons, and that ‘the elders’ who tried the case decided it against him. In the narrative he is called merely ‘the son of Gilead.’ Footnote 362: Tubi (No. 22) is one of the places mentioned by Thothmes III. among his conquests in Palestine. It is probably the modern Taiyibeh, the Tôbion of 2 Macc. x. 11, 17. Footnote 363: