Moladah
Biblical importance
Moladah has several mentions in the bible: Joshua 15:26, Joshua 19:2, 1 Chronicles 4:28 and Nehemiah 11:26. In Joshua, it is just allotting land for the Tribes of Israel. In 1 Chronicles, it is in a list of places of the descendants of Simeon. In Nehemiah, it is shown as being occupied by the returning Judahite exiles. It was later turned into an Idumean fortress.{{cite book|last=Lange|first=Johann Peter|title=A commentary on the Holy Scriptures: critical, doctrinal, and homilectical|year=1871|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=85dBAAAAYAAJ&dq=Moladah&pg=PA132|editor=Schaff, Phillip|accessdate=13 June 2012|volume=iv|page=132}}
Current location
There have been, and are, many debates concerning the current location of Moladah.Douglas, J.D.; Hillyer, Norman; Bruce, F.F.; Guthrie, Donald; Millard, A.R.; Wiseman, D.J. (Eds.). The Illustrated Bible Dictionary Volume 2, page 1018. Inter-Varsity, 1980. {{ISBN|0851106285}} Tell el-Milḥ, southeast of Beersheba, has been regularly identified with Moladah, but this mound is now thought more likely Canaanite Arad.J. Simons: Geographical and Topographical Texts of the Old Testament, 1959 Page 144 The more likely location is Khereibet el-Waṭen, east of Beersheba, which is possibly the Arab equivalent of the Hebrew name.Y. Aharoni The Land of the Bible, 1967 Page 110