Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Joshua 15:29
Baalah, and Iim, and Azem,
29. Baalah ] A fourth group is added of thirteen places which lay to the west and south-west:
(1) Baalah, called Balah (ch. Jos 19:3) and Bilhah (1Ch 4:29); (2) Iim, unknown; (3) Azem = “firmness” or “strength” (ch. Jos 19:3); (4) Eltolad = Tolad (1Ch 4:29), unknown; (5) Chesil = Bethul (Jos 19:4) = Bethuel (1Ch 4:30); (6) Hormah, or Zephath (comp. Jos 12:14); (7) Ziklag = “wilderness of destruction” (Gesenius), which afterwards came into the possession of Achish, king of Gath, who presented it to David (1Sa 27:6), and was burnt by the Amalekites (1Sa 30:1); (8) Madmannah = possibly to el-Minyy, south of Gaza, on the route of the pilgrims during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; (9) Sansannah, unknown; (10) Lebaoth = Beth-lebaoth (Jos 19:6; 1Ch 4:31), perhaps Lebhem, eight hours south of Gaza; (11) Shilhim = el-Scheriat, about midway between Gaza and Beer-sheba; (12) Ain; (13) Rimmon; in ch. Jos 19:7, 1Ch 4:32, these are treated as one place, and comp. Neh 11:29. Rimmon has been supposed to be represented by Um er-Rumamim, about three hours north of Beersheba.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Baalah,…. Baalah was given to the tribe of Simeon,
Jos 19:3; for Baalah is the same with Balah there, as it is with Bilba, 1Ch 4:29; though according to the Jerusalem Talmud i it is the same with Baalah, given to the tribe of Dan, Jos 19:44; and was one of those places whose houses were in Judah and their fields in Dan;
and Azem was also given to the tribe of Simeon, Jos 19:3; it is the same with Ezem, 1Ch 4:29;
and Iim, of which we read nowhere else.
i Hieros. Sanhedrin, fol. 18. 3.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Baalah: Jos 15:9-11, Jos 19:3
Azem: 1Ch 4:29
Reciprocal: 1Ch 4:28 – Beersheba