former, to the neighbourhood of which, Mareshah, we are brought back again in ver. 15. Adullam, with which the list closes, lies some eight or ten miles to the north-east of Mareshah. The prophet speaks:-- _Tell it not in Gath,_ _Weep not in Acco,_[828] _In Beth-le-'Aphrah_[829] _roll thyself in dust._ _Pass over, inhabitress of Shaphir,_[830] _thy shame uncovered!_ _The inhabitress of Sa'anan_[831] _shall not march forth;_ _The lamentation of Beth-esel_[832] _taketh from you its standing._ _The inhabitress of Maroth_[833] _trembleth for good, For evil hath come down from Jehovah to the gate of Jerusalem._ _Harness the horse to the chariot, inhabitress of Lachish,_[834] _That hast been the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion;_ _Yea, in thee are found the transgressions of Israel._ _Therefore thou givest ..._[835] _to Moresheth-Gath:_[836] _The houses of Achzib_[837] _shall deceive the kings of Israel._ _Again shall I bring the Possessor_ [_conqueror_] _to thee, inhabitress of Mareshah;_[838] _To Adullam_[839] _shall come the glory of Israel._ _Make thee bald, and shave thee for thy darlings;_ _Make broad thy baldness like the vulture,_ _For they go into banishment from thee._ This was the terrible fate which the Assyrian kept before the peoples with whom he was at war. Other foes raided, burned and slew: he carried off whole populations into exile. Having thus pictured the doom which threatened his people, Micah turns to declare the sins for which it has been sent upon them. FOOTNOTES: [809] Micah i.; Jer. xxvi. 18. [810] i. 14. [811] Ataroth (Numb. xxxii. 3) is Atroth-Shophan (_ib._ 35); Chesulloth (Josh. xix. 18) is Chisloth-Tabor (_ib._ 12); Iim (Numb. xxxiii. 45) is Iye-Abarim (_ib._ 44). [812] "Michæam de Morasthi qui usque hodie juxta Eleutheropolim, haud grandis est viculus."--Jerome, Preface to Micha. "Morasthi, unde fuit Micheas propheta, est autem vicus contra orientem Eleutheropoleos."--_Onomasticon_, which also gives "Maresa, in tribu Juda: cuius nunc tantummodo sunt ruinæ in secundo lapide Eleutheropoleos." See, too, the _Epitaphium S. Paulæ_: "Videam Morasthim sepulchrum quondam Michææ, nunc ecclesiam, et ex latere derelinquam Choræos, et Gitthæos et Maresam." The occurrence of a place bearing the name Property-of-Gath so close to Beit-Jibrin certainly strengthens the claims of the latter to be Gath. See _Hist. Geog._, p. 196. [813] See above, pp. 74 ff. [814] For the situation of Adullam in the Shephelah see _Hist. Geog._, p. 229.