Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Samuel 25:2

2 And there was a man in Maon , whose possessions were in Carmel , and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

A place in or near to the Wilderness of Paran. See chap. 23. 24.

Not that Carmel in Issachar; of which see chap. 15. 12. and 1 King. 18. 19. but another in the Tribe of Iudah, near unto Maon, as appears from Ios. 15. 55.

Marginal references: Or, business▪