The Sixth Hill Country District of Judah Around Hebron Through Beth-tappuah Aphekah and Zior

Joshua 15:52-54 catalogs the sixth hill country district of Judah's inheritance around Hebron: "Arab, and Dumah, and Eshean, And Janum, and Beth-tappuah, and Aphekah, And Humtah, and Kiriath-arba, which is Hebron, and Zior; nine cities with their villages." The cluster occupied the rugged Judean highlands surrounding Hebron — the Calebite heartland where David would later flee through during his fugitive years from Saul, and where he was first anointed king over Judah at Hebron after Saul's death. These small farming villages clung to the central spine of southern Judah's highland ridge.

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