The Inner Shephelah Catalog of Judahs Lowland Cities

Joshua 15:37-44 catalogs the cities of Judah's second Shephelah district — the inner lowlands between the central hill country and the Philistine coastal plain. The list opens with the eponymous Zenan, then names Hadashah, Migdal-gad, Dilean, Mizpeh, Joktheel, Lachish, Bozkath, Eglon, Cabbon, Lahmam, Chitlish, Gederoth, Beth-dagon, Naamah, and Makkedah. These were the small frontier settlements that filled the contested borderlands with the Philistine plain — towns repeatedly raided in the days of the judges and the early monarchy.

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