Hazar-susah

Hazar-susah ("village of the mare") — called Hazar-susim ("village of the horses") in the parallel list of 1 Chronicles 4:31 — was a Simeonite town in the western Negev (Joshua 19:5). Like its sister town Beth-marcaboth ("house of chariots"), the name preserves the memory of a regional Canaanite or Egyptian cavalry tradition that predated the Israelite settlement. The pairing of village-of-horses with house-of-chariots is striking: together they probably represent an older military outpost network on the Negev frontier that the tribe of Simeon inherited and absorbed into its widely-dispersed allotment. The exact site is uncertain but lay somewhere west of Beersheba between Ziklag and Beth-marcaboth. The chronicler's list of Simeonite towns ends with the quiet note "these were their towns until David reigned" (1 Chronicles 4:31) — implying that the small frontier garrisons were absorbed into the Judahite-Davidic kingdom in the early monarchy.