Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
Mount Seir is not the well-known range of Edom. The name ( "shaggy mountain" ) is applicable to any rugged or well-wooded hill. Here it probably denotes the range which runs southwestward from Kirjath-jearim to the Wady Surar. Mount Jearim, i. e. "woody mountain," is through its other name, Chesalon, identified with the modern "Kesla" .
Beth-shemesh - i. e. "house of the sun," called "Ir-shemesh" or "city of the sun" (Joshua 19:41; Compare I Kings 4:9), a place assigned to Dan, and one of the cities which fell by lot to the Levites Joshua 21:16. Beth-shemesh was the first place at which the ark rested after its return from the hands of the Philistines I Samuel 6:12. It was the residence of one of Solomon' s purveyors I Kings 4:9, and was the spot where at a later date Amaziah was defeated and slain by Jehoash (II Kings 14:11 ff). It is no doubt the modern "Ain Shems" .
Timnah, called also Timnath, and Timnathah, belonged likewise to Dan, and is to be distinguished from other places of like name Genesis 38:12; Joshua 24:30. Timnah ( "portion" ) was evidently, like Gilgal, Ramah, Kirjath, and several other towns, of frequent use in Canaanite topography.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Joshua 15:10:
Joshua 15:1
Joshua 19:21
Judges 14:1
2 Chronicles 28:18
Isaiah 11:14
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