Baalah,.... Baalah was given to the tribe of Simeon, Joshua 19:3; for Baalah is the same with Balah there, as it is with Bilba, 1-Chronicles 4:29; though according to the Jerusalem Talmud (i) it is the same with Baalah, given to the tribe of Daniel, Joshua 19:44; and was one of those places whose houses were in Judah and their fields in Daniel:
and Azem was also given to the tribe of Simeon, Joshua 19:3; it is the same with Ezem, 1-Chronicles 4:29,
and Iim, of which we read nowhere else.
(i) Hieros. Sanhedrin, fol. 18. 3.

Baalah, which was assigned to the Simeonites, is called Balah in Joshua 19:3, and Bilhah in 1-Chronicles 4:29. Knobel identifies it with the present Deir Belah, some hours to the south-west of Gaza Rob. iii. App.; Ritter, Erdk. xvi. pp. 41, 42); but it cannot have been so far to the west, or so near the coast as this. Iim (or Ivvim, according to the Αυεἴμ of the lxx) is probably the ruins of Beit-auwa (Rob. iii. App.). Azem, which was also given up to the Simeonites (Joshua 19:3; 1-Chronicles 4:29), is supposed by Knobel to be Eboda, the present Abdeh, eight hours to the south of Elusa, a considerable mass of ruins on a ridge of rock (Rob. i. p. 287), because the name signifies firmness or strength, which is also the meaning of the Arabic name-a very precarious reason.