Note (2) — 39.—Of the withered tree.
J. Buchan (John Buchan) Telfer translation
(2.) “it is well taken care of.”—The distance from Hebron to Jerusalem, as given in chapter 40, is correct (Raumer, Palæstina, etc., 201); so is the statement that Hebron was the chief city of the Philistines, for Josephus (Wars, etc., xii, 10) says that it was a royal city of the Canaanites.