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 Ῥοωβώθ 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 Φόγωρ, 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) (Ἱεθέρ, etc.)] probably (Hebrew characters) = (Hebrew characters), v.26.—41. (Hebrew characters)
is supposed to be the seaport (Hebrew characters); see on 146.—(Hebrew characters) (Φινες, Φ[ε]ινων) =
(Hebrew characters), Nu. 3342f., the Φαινών (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), Μαβσαρά was a very large village in Gebalene,
subject to Petra.—43. (Hebrew characters) and (Hebrew characters) are unknown. For the latter, G
has Ζαφωεί[ν] = (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) (1020. 31).—43. (Hebrew characters)]
[E] (Hebrew characters) (v.40).—(Hebrew characters)] see on v.1.
