Nehemiah 11:26

And at Jeshua, and at Moladah, and at Bethphelet,

Moladah (see the note at Joshua 15:26) - in the south of Judah. The name is supposed to have been derived from Mylitta, a Phoenician and Babylonian goddess (see Fursts 'Handbook,' sub voce; also Rawlinson's 'Herodotus,' 1:, 199) The whole region in which the villages here mentioned were situated had been completely devastated by the Chaldean invasion; and, therefore, it must be assumed that these villages had been rebuilt, before "the children of Judah dwelt in them."