Kirjathbaal, (which [is] Kirjathjearim,),.... Of Kirjathbaal, and its several names, Joshua 15:9;
and Rabbah, of which we nowhere else read; for this is a very different city from the Rabbah of the children of Ammon, 2 Samuel 12:26;
two cities with their villages; why these are reckoned by themselves is not certain.