The Fifth Hill Country District of Judah Around Maon Carmel and Jokdeam

Joshua 15:55-57 catalogs the fifth district of Judah's hill country inheritance: "Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Juttah, And Jezreel, and Jokdeam, and Zanoah, Cain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages." This was the Calebite heartland south and east of Hebron, soaked in pastoral imagery — the very landscape where David would later flee Saul, where Nabal would refuse provisions to David's men at Carmel, and where Abigail would intercept David's wrath. These ten towns formed the spiritual and geographic core of southern Judah.

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