Joshua 19:5-9

Ziklag See ch. Joshua 15:31, identified by Rowlands and Wilton (Negeb, p. 209) with Asloodgor Kasloodg; (a) Achish bestowed the town upon David; (b) here David resided upwards of one year and four months (1Sa 27:7; 1 Samuel 30:14; 1 Samuel 30:26); (c) here he received the news of Saul's death (2 Samuel 1:1; 2 Samuel 4:10); 10. Beth-marcaboth = "house of chariots," and 11. Hazar-susah = "village of horses," appear to be the old names of Madmannah and Sansannah (see ch. Joshua 15:31). These names indicate, remarks Dean Stanley, "that they were stations of passage, like those which now are to be seen on the great line of Indian transit between Cairo and Suez," we recognise in them "the dêpots and stations for the -horses" and -chariots," such as those which in Solomon's time went to and fro between Egypt and Palestine." Sinai and Palestine, p. 160;