The Post-Exile Resettlement of Judahs Southern Negev

Nehemiah 11:25-30 records the southern Negev resettlement of returning Judean exiles: "And for the villages, with their fields, some of the children of Judah dwelt at Kiriath-arba, and in the villages thereof, and at Dibon, and in the villages thereof, and at Jekabzeel, and in the villages thereof, And at Jeshua, and at Moladah, and at Beth-pelet, And at Hazar-shual, and at Beersheba, and in the villages thereof, And at Ziklag, and at Mekonah... And at En-rimmon, and at Zareah, and at Jarmuth, Zanoah, Adullam, and in their villages, at Lachish, and the fields thereof, at Azekah, and in the villages thereof."

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