Matthew Poole and continuators on Judges 18:12

12 And they went up and pitched in Kirjathjearim in [illegible: 1+ letters]udah: wherefore they called that place Mahaneh-dan, unto this day: behold it is behind Kirjath-jearim .

Called Kiriath-baal, Ios. 15. 60. a City lying in the Northern parts of Iudah, in the Road to Laish; yet not in the City, but in the Fields belonging to it, as the following words evince.

i. e. Westward from it, as the Western Sea is called the hindermost Sea, Deut. 11. 24. and as on the contrary, the East is called Kedem, which signifies the fore-part.