In any case, the list of vanquished towns begins first with Gaza, the possession of which was necessary before the Egyptian army could force its way into Palestine; then come Rabbith of Issachar, Taanach, near Megiddo, Hapharaim and Beth-Horon, while Mahanaim, on the eastern side of the Jordan, is also included among them. But after this the list deals exclusively with the towns and villages of Judah, and of the Bedouin tribes in the desert to the south of it. Thus we have Ajalon and Makkedah, Socho and Keilah, Migdol and Beth-anoth. Then we read the names of Azem and Arad, farther to the south, as well as of the Hagaraim or “Enclosures” of Arad, and Rabbith ’Aradai, “Arad the capital.” Next to Arad comes the name of Yurahma, the Jerahme-el of the Old Testament, the brother of Caleb the Kenizzite (1 Chron. ii. 42) whose land was ravaged by David (1 Sam. xxx. 29). But the larger portion of the list is made up of the names of small villages and even Bedouin encampments, or of such general terms as Hagra, “enclosure,” Negebu, “the south,” ’Emeq, “the valley,” Shebbaleth, “a torrent,” Abilim, “fields,” Ganat, “garden,” Haideba, “a quarry,” and the Egyptian Shodinau, “canals.”(8) Among them we look in vain even for names like those of Gezer and Beer-sheba. Jerusalem, too, is conspicuous by its absence, unless we agree with Professor Maspero in seeing it in the last name of the list (No. 133), of which only the first syllable is preserved. Were it not for the record in the First Book of Kings, we should never have known that the campaign of Shishak had inflicted such signal injury on the kingdom of Judah. Champollion, indeed, the first discoverer of the list and of its importance, believed that he had found in it the name of the Jewish capital. The twenty-ninth cartouche reads Yaud-hamelek, which he explained as signifying “the kingdom of Judah,” while Rosellini made it “the king of Judah.” But both interpretations are impossible. _Melek_, it is true, means “king” in Hebrew, but “king of Judah” would have to be _melek-Yaudah_; “kingdom of Judah,” _malkûth-Yaudah_. In the Semitic languages the genitive must follow the noun that governs it.