Sansannah

Sansannah appears once in Scripture in Joshua's catalog of the southernmost cities of Judah's Negev inheritance: "Madmannah, and Sansannah, And Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the cities are twenty and nine, with their villages" (Joshua 15:31-32). The town occupied the desert margin between settled Judah and the Amalekite-Edomite wilderness — small frontier settlements that watched the routes south toward Sinai. Sansannah is generally identified with Khirbet esh-Shamsaniyat about thirteen miles north of Beersheba in the western Negev. The same site may correspond to Hazar-susah in Simeon's overlapping allotment (Joshua 19:5).