The Easternmost Negev Cluster of Sansannah Lebaoth Shilhim and Rimmon in Judahs Inheritance

Joshua 15:31-32 closes the catalog of Judah's southernmost cities: "Ziklag, and Madmannah, and Sansannah, And Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the cities are twenty and nine, with their villages." The cluster occupied the desert margin between settled Judah and the Amalekite-Edomite wilderness — small frontier settlements that watched the strategic caravan routes south toward Sinai and Egypt. Several of these towns reappear in Simeon's overlapping tribal allotment a few chapters later, since Simeon's territory lay entirely within Judah's borders and many sites are listed in both inheritances.

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