1 Kings 4:8

Mount Ephraim] RV 'the hill country of Ephraim': and so elsewhere.

9-12. Of the localities mentioned in these vv. several (Makaz, Elon-beth-hanan, Aruboth, Hepher) are unknown. Shaalbim was in Dan; Beth-shemesh (modern Ain shems) and Sochoh were in Judah; Dor was on the coast, near Carmel; Taanach, Megiddo, Jezreel, Jokneam (RV 'Jokmeam') were in or near the plain of Esdraelon; Beth-shean (the modern Beisan), Zartanah, and Abel-meholah were in the Jordan valley.

13, 14. The places named in these vv. were E. of Jordan. Argob is the Trachonitis of the NT., a volcanic district, now called the 'Leja,' lying S. of Damascus.