The Hill Country Towns of Judahs Inheritance

Joshua 15:48-60 catalogs the hill country towns of Judah's inheritance in five groups: the Hebron group, the Maon-Carmel group, the Halhul cluster, and several lists of smaller settlements. Among them are Anim, Aphekah, Arab, Dumah, Eshean, Beth-tappuah, and Janum: "Arab, and Dumah, and Eshean, And Janum, and Beth-tappuah, and Aphekah... And Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Juttah." The cluster of obscure highland towns marks the southern hill country between Hebron and the Negev fringe — terraced agricultural settlements that filled the Judean highlands across the centuries of the monarchy.

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