And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad
Which was either the name of a man the owner of it, or of a place so called from the thorns and brambles which grew here, and with which the threshingfloor was surrounded, as Jarchi says, see ( Judges 9:14 ) ( Psalms 58:9 ) and it was usual to make a hedge of thorns round about a threshingfloor F15, that it might be preserved; mention is made in the Talmud F16 of the wilderness of Atad, perhaps so called from the thorns and brambles in it: Jerom says F17 it was three miles from Jericho and two from Jordan, and was in his time called Bethagla, the place of a circuit, because there they went about after the manner of mourners at the funeral of Jacob. This, according to some F18, was two hundred and forty miles from On, where Joseph was supposed to live, sixteen from Jerusalem, and forty from Hebron, where Jacob was buried: nay, Austin