The Negev Border Catalog of Judahs Inheritance

Joshua 15:21-32 catalogs the southern Negev cities of Judah's tribal inheritance — twenty-nine towns running along the desert margin between settled Judah and the Edomite-Amalekite wilderness. The list opens: "And the uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of Judah toward the coast of Edom southward were Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur, And Kinah, and Dimonah, and Adadah, And Kedesh, and Hazor, and Ithnan." The catalog continues through Beersheba, Moladah, Hazar-shual, and into the western Negev — preserving the names of dozens of small frontier villages that filled the desert margin in the early monarchy.

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