Eltolad

Eltolad ("God's kindred") was a town in the Negev allotted at the conquest first to Judah and then to Simeon, which lived as an enclave within Judah's larger territory (Joshua 15:30, 19:4). The Chronicler later lists it among "the cities they had until David reigned" as part of the Simeonite inheritance (1 Chronicles 4:29 names it Tolad). Like the rest of the Simeonite Negev outposts, Eltolad was a small frontier settlement on the desert edge. Its exact location is uncertain, though somewhere in the Beersheba basin is likely.