1 Chronicles 27:28 -

A similar couple of officers to those of the last verse are described here. By the low plains here in the Authorized Version is translated what had been better left untranslated, i.e. the Shephelah , one of the five divisions of Judaea. It comprised the low-lying tract of land on the coast and, roughly speaking, stretching from Joppa to Gaza. The sycamore tree ( הַשִּׁקְמִוֹם , a plural masculine, and once שִׁקְמוֹת , a plural feminine, Psalms 78:1-72 :87) is to be distinguished from the sycamine, being that kind of mulberry tree called fig mulberry. The Septuagint, however, does not observe the distinction, and always translates συκάμινος . It was a common tree, and useful to the poor. It is the same with the black mulberry of Egypt, and abounded in Palestine ( 1 Kings 10:27 ). Its fruit was eatable, and its wood, though soft, yet valuable for enduringness. The name Baal-hanan comes first before us as that of a King of Edom ( Genesis 36:38 , Genesis 36:39 ; 1 Chronicles 1:49 ). The place Gederah ( Joshua 15:36 ), or Beth-gader ( 1 Chronicles 2:51 ), attached to the name of the present Baal-hanan , renders it not less probable that he was of similar extraction.