Libnah
Here begins another division or list of the cities of Judah, in the valley or plain. Libnah is the same with Libnah, a royal city; see ( Joshua 10:29 ) ( 12:15 ) ;
and Ether
was given to the tribe of Simeon, ( Joshua 19:7 ) ; and under Ether of the lot of Simeon, Jerom writes F25, there is now a very large village called Jethira, in interior Daroma, near Malatha, twenty miles from Eleutheropolis;
and Ashan
also was given to the tribe of Simeon, ( Joshua 19:7 ) ; and the above writer relates F26, that there was in his times a village called Bethasan, belonging to Aelia, or Jerusalem, fifteen miles from it.