To morrow go ye down against them: behold, they come up by the cliff of Ziz; and ye shall find them at the end of the brook, before the wilderness of Jeruel.
They come up by the cliff of Ziz. This seems to have been nothing else than the present pass, which leads northwards, by an ascent from Engedi, to Jerusalem, issuing a little below Tekoa. The wilderness of Jeruel was, probably, the large flat district adjoining the desert of Tekoa, called el-Husasah, from a wady on its northern side (Robinson's 'Biblical Researches,' 2:,p. 215).