Heshmon

Heshmon ("fatness") was a southern Negev town in Judah's tribal inheritance, named in Joshua 15:27 in the catalog of cities "in the south country, by the coast of Edom": "And Hazar-gaddah, and Heshmon, and Beth-palet." The town appears only in this single boundary list. The exact location is uncertain but lay in the desert margin between settled Judah and the Edomite-Amalekite wilderness, possibly identified with one of the small tells in the central Negev where Iron Age cisterns and pottery have been recovered.