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Azem (Aauzamaa), and Lebaoth (Libith). To the second class may be assigned Taanach (Ta'ankau), mentioned as a Levitical city in Josh. xxi. 25 ; Rehob (Rehabau), mentioned in Josh. xxi. 31 and 1 Chron. vi. 75 ; Mahanaim (Mahunema), mentioned Josh. xxi. 38, 1 Chron. vi. 80 ; Beth-horon
(Beith-Huaron), mentioned Josh. xxi. 22, 1 Chron. vi. 68 Josh. xxi. 37, 1 Chron. vi. 79 ; Bileam (Bilema), mentioned 1 Chron. vi. 70 ; Golan (Galenaa), mentioned Josh. xxi. 27, 1 Chron.. vi. 71 and Anem (Anama), mentioned in 1 Chron. vi. 73. As belonging to the third class we can only fix positively on Beth-shan (Beith-shan-ra) and Megiddo (Maketu) ; but Rab;
Kedemoth (Kademoth), mentioned
;
Shunem, Hapharaim, and Edrei, which are also contained in Sheshonk's list of his conquests, may be suspected of having retained a Canaanite element in their population. This list is remarkable both for what it contains and for what it omits. The omission of most of those strongholds towards the south, which Rehoboam fortified against Egypt, as Hebron, Lachish, Azekah, Mareshah, Gath, Adullam, Bethbith,
and Tekoa (2 Chron. xi. 6-10), is perhaps to be explained by the illegibility of twelve names at the beginning of the list, where these cities, as the first attacked, would most
zur,
probably have been mentioned. The omission of Jerusalem might also be accounted for in the same way. Or the fact may have been that Jerusalem itself was not taken. Like Hezekiah, on the first invasion of Sennacherib (2 Kings xviii. 13-16), Rehoboam may have surrendered his treasures (1 xiv. 26) to save his city from the horrors of capture. This was, perhaps, the fulfilment of God's promise by the mouth of Shemaiah " I will grant them some deliverance, and My wrath shall not be poured upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak " (2 Chron. xii. 7). The Egyptian monarch, on receiving the treasures and tie submission of Rehoboam (ibid. ver. 8), may have consented to respect the
Kings
city.
But, as he could not mention Jersusalem among his actual conquests, he supplied the place where the name would naturally have occurred with an inscription of a peculiar kind. The cartouche borne by one of the earlier of the ideal " MALeK," in which figures contains the epigraph a boast either that the Egyptologists generally recognize " " made submission to the king or the kingdom of Judah " " conqueror. Yuteh Malek is, we think, most properly read
YUTeH