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part of Mt. Seir.—37. ] The name of the first king of Israel.—] so called to distinguish it from other places of the same name (cf. 26$22$), is probably the of OS, 145$15$ (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. 5$12$).—38. ] 'Baal is gracious.' The name of the seventh king is the only existing trace of Baal-worship in Edom.—] 'jerboa' (Ar. 'akbar): see Rob. Sm. KM$2$, 235$1$. Here it is probably a clan-name, but appears as personal in OT (2 Ki. 22$14$, Jer. 26$22$ 36$12$).—39. ] To be read (Heb. MSS, [E]SG partly, and 1 Ch. 1$50$).—For  (1 Ch. ), G has, i.e. , the mountain in Moab (Nu. 23$28$ etc.).—Why the wife of Hadad is named we cannot tell. ('God does good') is a man's name in Neh. 6$10$.—For it would be better to read  (GS). But (gold-water) is more likely to be the name of a place than of a person; hence Marquart's emendation (l.c. 10) is very plausible, as is his identification of with the miswritten of Dt. 1$1$.

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. =, v.$23$.— (, etc.)] probably  = , v.$26$.—41. is supposed to be the seaport ; see on 14$6$.— = , Nu. 33$42f.$, the (Fenon) of OS, 123$9$ (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. ] Acc. to OS, 137$11$ (p. 277), was a very large village in Gebalene, subject to Petra.—43. and  are unknown. For the latter, G has [] =, 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. ] S .—] G (10$20. 31$).—43. ] [E] (v.$40$).—] see on v.$1$.