In the desert, etc.] Uzziah's cattle were pastured in three different districts, (a) the desert (or wilderness) in the S. and SE. of Judah, which has some fertile spots; (b) the low country (or lowland), consisting of the slopes that extend from the Judæan hills to the Mediterranean; (c) the plains, or tableland, E. of the Dead Sea and the Jordan, where Uzziah may have secured rights of pasturage from the Ammonites (2 Chronicles 26:8). Carmel] RV 'the fruitful fields': or level garden-land, as distinct from the 'mountains' or hilly districts.

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