Shilhim

Shilhim appears once in Scripture in Joshua's catalog of Judah's southernmost cities: "Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the cities are twenty and nine, with their villages" (Joshua 15:32). The town occupied the desert margin between settled Judah and the Amalekite-Edomite wilderness, in the cluster of small frontier settlements that watched the strategic caravan routes south toward Sinai. The exact site remains unidentified by archaeology. The same site may correspond to "Shaaraim" or "Sharuhen" in Simeon's overlapping allotment, since Simeon's tribal territory lay entirely within Judah's borders and many sites are listed in both catalogs.