Now Heber the Kenite, which was of the children of Hobab the father in law of Moses, had severed himself from the Kenites, and pitched his tent unto the plain of Zaanaim, which is by Kedesh.
Now Heber the Kenite, [Septuagint, Chaber]
... had severed himself from the Kenites (i:e., who were established in the south of Palestine: see the note at Judges 1:16),
And pitched ... unto the plain of Zaanaim. It was a sort of debateable land (Stanley, 'Sinai and Palestine,' p.
332), this powerful nomadic chief having secured the quiet enjoyment of the pastures there by the adoption of a neutral position. (In addition to what is said in the passage referred to, see an account of the Yehud Chebr, the Arab descendants of Heber the Kenite, in Schwarz's 'Descriptive Geography and Brief Historical Sketch of Palestine,' 1850). It is not unusual, even in the present day, for pastoral tribes to feed their flocks on the extensive commons that lie in the heart of inhabited countries in the East (see the note at Judges 1:16). "The plain of Zaanaim," or Zaanannim (see the note at Joshua 19:11) х `ad (H5704) 'eelown (H436), at the oak or terebinth of Zaanaim; Septuagint, heoos druos pleonektountoon, as far as the oak of the overreaching; Stanley, 'the oaks of the wanderers']. The site of the encampment was under a grove of oaks or terebinths in the upland valley of Kedesh.