And the fenced cities [are] Ziddim,.... The later name of Ziddim, according to the Talmud , was Cepharchitiya, or the village of wheat, perhaps from the large quantity or goodness of wheat there;Zer is called by Jerom Sor, and interpreted Tyre, the metropolis of Phoenicia, very wrongly, and, in the tribe of Naphtali;and Hammath probably was built by the youngest son of Canaan, Ge 10:18; or had its name in memory of him; it lay to the north of the land of Israel; see Nu 34:8;Rakkath, and Chinnereth; Rakkath according to the Jewish writers is the same with Tiberias, as Chinnereth with Gennesaret, from whence the lake or sea of Tiberias, and the country and lake of Gennesaret, had their names, often mentioned in the New Testament.
Gennesaret was a most delicious and fruitful spot, and fulfilled the prophecy of Moses, De 33:23; concerning Naphtali. Ut supra. (T. Hieros. Megillah, fol. 70. 1.) De loc. Heb. fol. 95. A. T. Hieros.
ut supra. (Megillah, fol. 70. 1.