534. B makes no distinction in the two spellings of Rekem, but A has a point beneath in the first instance and a point above in the second. This may be intended to indicate the vocalization Rekem in the first place, and Rekom or Rokom in the second, following Eusebius, op. cit. p. 144, lines 7 f. It is a curious fact that the Lee edition of the Peshitta has this point beneath only in three places where it stands for MT Kadesh (Gen. 14:7; 16:14; 20:1), while there is no hint as to the vocalization elsewhere; the Urmia and Mosul editions uniformly point Rkem.
535. The name Rekem per se does not occur in Isaiah in MT or LXX; so Josh. 13:21 may be meant. Joshua makes Rekem one of the chiefs of Midian, the same mentioned in Num. 31:8. Josh. 18:27 refers to a city of Benjamin which could hardly be confused with Petra. Dalman (Neue Petra-Forschungen [Leipzig, 1912] p. 14) suggests that the identification of Sela with Rekem may have arisen through the use of a compound name Sela-Rekem to designate the most conspicuous outpost of the ancient Edomite capital. MT has the name Rekem also in I Chron. 2:43-44 and 7:16; but it occurs in LXX in I Chron. 2:43 and 7:16 only. Cf. also Eusebius, op. cit. p. 142.
536. Ps. 60:8 f.; 108:9 f.; cf. Syro-Hexaplaric version.
537. Isa. 16:1 in LXX; but LXX has μη instead of the "and," while Syro-Hex. has @@@.
538. Cf. Eusebius, op. cit. p. 150; Josephus, Antiquities I xx 3.
539. Not a mere transliteration of the Greek, but the form occurring in the Peshitta of John 3:23. B might be read In-Nun, nearer the Greek.
540. Gen. 28:19. Cf. Eusebius, op. cit. p. 40.
541. A LXX misreading of the Hebrew @@@ of Gen. 28:19.
542. The Beth-aven of MT in Josh. 7:2 and 18:12; the name Bethel has dropped out of LXX in the former passage. Cf. Eusebius, op. cit. pp. 50 and 66.
543. Judg. 1:5; cf. Eusebius, op. cit. p. 106.
544. 1 Chron. 11:4-5.
545. Gen. 14:18; Josephus, Antiquities I x 2.
546. The order of the two words "portion" and "tribe" is unusual; it has been transposed from that found in Eusebius.
547. Lagarde is more literal in using the word τοπικα, but this is the work referred to. The margin reads, then: "τοπικα, that is, because of the happenings in the places."
548. Eusebius, op. cit. p. 152, has here two Greek names for the place, in the first instance Σικίμων , in the second Συχέμ .
549. Josephus, loc. cit.
550. Gen. 14:15.
551. Cf. Eusebius, op. cit. p. 110.
552. Jonah 1:3.
553. Josephus identifies the two places; see Eusebius, op. cit. p. 100. But Epiphanius has not previously mentioned Tarsus.
554. The modern Acre; Eusebius, op. cit. p. 30.
555. B: @@@; B margin: θιμουνα. There is a modern ed-Damun southeast of Acre.
556. Josephus ( Vita, § 188) mentions a Jamnia in northern Galilee.
557. Can there be any connection with the σιγοφ or σιγω of Josephus, Jewish War II 573? B margin: βιτοσηγων.
558. This is not the reading of MT in Jonah 3:4.