south side of Wady Suleiman, through which this rond, runs) ; from Ataroth the line ran south-westerly along the Wady Suleiman, so as to include Chephirah (xviii, 26) (prob.ably Keftir, near this road), opposite the hill above described (ver. 14, where the expression rendered "com- passed the corner of the sea" ajipears to signify [as some cojiies of the Sept. translate] a bend from a seaward [i. e. westerly] direction), and again south-easterly to Kirjath- jearim (thus forming the western side), where it joined the boundary of Judah, which it followed back to the Jor- dan, and so up to the point of beginning.
The towns of this tribe enumerated in Josh, xviii, 21-28 appear to be classed under two general sections — the twelve in ver. 21-24 lying ninth and east of Jerusalem, while the fourteen others occupy the more southern and western portion of the territory. At least one of these cities, Kirjath-jearim, was really (eventually) \vithiu the limits ofthe adjoining tribe, Judah (Judg. xviii, 12).
7. Dan — This tribe was bounded by the Mediterranean on the west, and by the tribes of Jndah on the south, Benjamin on the east, and Ephraim on the north. (The Danites also conquered from the Canaanites Leshem or Laish, in the extreme northern part of Palestine, within the bounds of Manasseh east, and retained it under the name of Dan.) The only portion unidentified is the north- ern boundary, which will be considered under Ephraim.
8. Ej)lirnim. — The Mediterranean was the western and the Jordan the eastern boundary. The southern bounda- ry has been already defined from the Jordan westward as far as Ataroth : from this point it jiassed westward (to the Jaffa road), in the vicinity of Japhleti (perhaps situated at Beit-Unia ; but this word should probably be rendered " the Japhletites," i. e. family of Japhlet, a descendant of Asher [1 Chron. vii, 32, 33], although it is diflicult to ex- plain their existence in this location), to Betli-horon the nether (Josh, xvi, 3); thence more northerly (i. e. in a general north-westerly direction) to the Mediterranean (probably along the Jaffa road to Wady Budrus, and thence north on the western brow of the hills to Wady el-Aujeh, which it may naturally have followed westward to the sea; for it excluded Baalath [Balat], Jehiid [Yehu- dieh], and Japho [Joppa], xix, 44, 4.'5, but included Beth- horon and Gezer [Abn-chnrheb], xxi, 21, 22), passing on the way Gezer (xvi, 3) west of Beth-el (1 Chron. vii, 28 [the other i)assages where it is mentioned do not help to fix the locality more definitely] ; lately thontrht to have been found in Tell Jazei). The lemainder of the description ofthe southern botmdary (Josh, xvi, 5, last clause of 6, and whole of 7) is the same as that of Benjamin on the north.
The northern boundary (the account in Josh, xvi, 7, with the exception ofthe first name, must he transposed so as to connect immediately with the description of the south border in ver. !)), beginning at the Jordan (probably at the mouth of Wady Fiisail), passed westward (up this wady, otherwise called Wady Mudadireh, or Burshek) to Taa- nath-shiloh (ver. 6) (probably the present Ain-Faria); thence north-westerly to Tajipuah (xvii, 7) (probably the Belad el-Taffue [or Atiif] mentioned by some travellers east of Shechem) ; thence northerly to Michmelhah (xvi, 6: xvii, 7) (apparently at the intersection of the line with Wady Tubas); thence, with a north-westerly curve, to Asher (ibid.) (probably represented by the modern Yasir) ; thence the line is only given in general terms as exlend- ing to the river Kanah on the Mediterranean (xvi. S ; xvii, 9) (no doubt the present Nahr-Falaik, which is the princi- pal marshy stream in that region).
9. Mannxxeh West. — The boundaries of this tribe are given with great indistinctness, and must be in part col- lected from the contiguous portions of Ephraim, Asher, and Issachar, from which certain towns were set off in ad- dition to its proper territory (Josh, .xvii, 11). From the Mediterr.inean, the northern boundary, beirinning at Car- mel (foi- Dor, below Carmel, is inclndeil [ibid. ; xix, 26]), and following the edge of the mountain (probably along the Kishon [Nahr-el-iMukattah]) south-easterly (as far as Jokneam [Tell-el-Kamon], and thence keepingthe moun- tain more closely so as to throw the plain ofEsdraelon entirely within Issachar [Gen. xlix, 1.")]), so as to include (Josh, xvii, 11) Mciriddo (Lejjun), Taanach (Ta'anuk), but so as to exclude (xix, 21) En-gannim (Jeniii); thence (with a sharp curve) due north (on the west brow of Mts. Gilboa and Little Ilerinon), so as to include En-dor (Endur) (xvii, 11), hut not Jezreel (Zerin), nor Chesulloth (Iksal), nor Shunem (Solani) (xi.x, IS), nor Tabor (ver. 21) : thence (with .'mother sharp curve) south-east (probably down Wady Oskeh), so as to include Beth-shean (Beisan) (xvii, 11), to the Jordan, which formed the eastern boundary.
10. fnxacliar. — This tribe was hemmed iu ou the south by Manasseh West, on the west by Asher, and on the north by Zebtilnn, leaving only the Jordan as a natural boundary on the east (Josh, xix, 22).
11. Zebtilun.— In Jacob's dying blessing (Gen. xlix, 13), the territory of this tribe is prophetically described as be- ing suitable for maritime purposes, and as extending along a sea as far as Sidou, which must be explained as meaning that it reached Phnenicia, through which latter si'afaring people .a communication was kept up throuiih the river Kishon and the harbor at Carmel. In Josh, xix, 10-15, the boundaries are definitely laid dowu thus: Be-