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part of Mt. Seir.—37. (Hebrew characters)] The name of the first king of Israel.—(Hebrew characters)] so called to distinguish it from other places of the same name (cf. 26²²), is probably the (Greek characters) of OS, 145¹⁵ (p. 286), a military post in Gebalene. The river is, therefore, not the Euphrates (although a place Rahaba has been discovered on its W side), but some perennial stream in the N of Edom, defined by the city on its banks (cf. 2 Ki. 5¹²).—38. (Hebrew characters)] 'Baal is gracious.' The name of the seventh king is the only existing trace of Baal-worship in Edom.—(Hebrew characters)] 'jerboa' (Ar. 'akbar): see Rob. Sm. KM², 235¹. Here it is probably a clan-name, but appears as personal in OT (2 Ki. 22¹⁴, Jer. 26²² 36¹²).—39. (Hebrew characters)] To be read (Hebrew characters) (Heb. MSS, [E]SG partly, and 1 Ch. 1⁵⁰).—For (Hebrew characters) (1 Ch. (Hebrew characters)), G has (Greek characters), i.e. (Hebrew characters), the mountain in Moab (Nu. 23²⁸ etc.).—Why the wife of Hadad II. is named we cannot tell. (Hebrew characters) ('God does good') is a man's name in Neh. 6¹⁰.—For (Hebrew characters) it would be better to read (Hebrew characters) (GS). But (Hebrew characters) (gold-water) is more likely to be the name of a place than of a person; hence Marquart's emendation (Hebrew characters) (l.c. 10) is very plausible, as is his identification of (Hebrew characters) with the miswritten (Hebrew characters) of Dt. 1¹.

40-43. The chiefs of Esau.—This second list of 'Allûphîm presents more features of P's style than any other section of the chapter, but is of doubtful antiquarian value. Of the eleven names, more than one half are found in the preceding lists (^10-39); the new names, so far as they can be explained, are geographical. It is possible that the document preserves a statistical survey of administrative districts of Edom subsequent to the overthrow of its independence (Ew. Di. Dri. al.); but there is no evidence that this is the case.

40. (Hebrew characters) = (Hebrew characters), v.²³.—(Hebrew characters) ((Greek characters), etc.)] probably (Hebrew characters) = (Hebrew characters), v.²⁶.—41. (Hebrew characters) is supposed to be the seaport (Hebrew characters); see on 14⁶.—(Hebrew characters) ((Greek characters)) = (Hebrew characters), Nu. 33^42f., the (Greek characters) (Fenon) of OS, 123⁹ (p. 299; cf. p. 123), a village between Petra and Zoar, where were copper mines worked by convicts. The name (see Seetzen, iii. 17), and the ruins of the mines have been discovered at Fenān, 6 or 7 m. NNW of Šobek (Meyer, 353 f.).—42. (Hebrew characters)] Acc. to OS, 137¹¹ (p. 277), (Greek characters) was a very large village in Gebalene, subject to Petra.—43. (Hebrew characters) and (Hebrew characters) are unknown. For the latter, G has (Greek characters)[(Greek characters)] = (Hebrew characters), v.¹¹. It is probable that in the original text both names were contained, as in an anonymous chronicle edited by Lagarde (Sept-St. ii.; see Nestle, Marg. 12), making the number up to twelve.

It remains to state briefly the more important historical results yielded by study of these Edomite lists. (1) At the earliest period of which we have any knowledge, the country of Se'ir was peopled by a

40. (Hebrew characters)] S (Hebrew characters).—(Hebrew characters)] G (Hebrew characters) (10^{20. 31}).—43. (Hebrew characters)] [E] (Hebrew characters) (v.⁴⁰).—(Hebrew characters)] see on v.¹.