And Kattath, and Nahallal,.... Of the two first of these we read nowhere else, but in Joshua 21:34;
and Shimron was a royal city, the king of which Joshua took and hanged, Joshua 11:1;
and Idalah is a place Bochart conjectures t where the goddess Venus was worshipped, Idalia being one of her names;
and Bethlehem is a different place from that which was the birthplace of our Lord, called Bethlehem of Judah, to distinguish it from this:
twelve cities with their villages; more are named, but some of them belonged to other tribes, and only lay on the borders of this; and others might not be properly cities, but small towns.
t Canaan, l. 1. c. 3. col. 356.