Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Joshua 15:26
Amam, and Shema, and Moladah,
26. Amam ( c) Third group of nine cities:
(1) Amam, unknown; (2) Shema, a place of the Simeonites (ch. Jos 19:2); (3) Moladah, called Malatua by the Greeks and Romans = the modern El-Milh, four English miles from Tell Arad and nine or ten due east of Beersheba; (4) Hazar-gaddah, unknown; (5) Heshmon, unknown; (6) Beth-palet, unknown; (7) Hazar-shual = “ village of jackals,” inhabited after the Captivity by men of Judah (Neh 11:27); (8) Beer-sheba = either ( a) “ Well of Seven ” or ( b) “ Well of the Oath ” (Gen 21:28-32). We find Beer-sheba visited by Abraham, who dug the well (Gen 21:31); the place where Samuel’s sons judged Israel (1Sa 8:2); constituting, with Dan in the north, the established formula for the whole of the Promised Land “Dan to Beer-sheba” (2Sa 24:2); the seat of an idolatrous worship in the time of Amos (Amo 5:5; Amo 8:14). It still retains as nearly as possible its ancient name, Br-es-Seb. There are at present two principal wells and five smaller ones. The curb-stones round the mouth are worn into deep grooves by the action of the ropes of so many centuries, and look as if “frilled or fluted all round”; (9) Bizjothjah, unknown.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Amam,…. Of Amam we read nowhere else;
and Shema is thought by some to be the same with Sheba, though wrongly, given afterwards to the tribe of Simeon, as was also Moladah, mentioned with it, Jos 19:2;
and Moladah; it is also spoken of in 1Ch 4:28, and seems to be the same with Malathi or Malatis, about twenty miles from Hebron f.
f Vid. Reland. Palest. Illustrat. tom. 2. p. 885, 886.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
26. Moladah, afterwards given to Simeon, is the modern el Milh, about twenty miles south of Hebron. [This place was identified by Dr. Robinson. It has two wells about forty feet deep, and the ruins of a former city cover a space around of nearly half a mile square. It was inhabited again after the exile. Neh 11:26. The sides of the wells are, according to Tristram, “of hard marble, polished and deeply fluted all round by the ropes of the water drawers, perhaps for four thousand years. Eight ancient water-troughs stand irregularly around, some oblong, many cup-shaped, and others apparently the scooped pedestals of ancient columns, which have once supported a portico over the well.”]
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Moladah: Probably the same as Malatha, a city frequently mentioned by Eusebius; from whom it appears to have been situated in the southern border of Judah, about twenty miles from Hebron. 1Ch 4:28
Reciprocal: 1Ch 5:8 – Azaz Neh 11:26 – Moladah