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Elon Betza'anayim. The marshland plain.⁸This is Targum Yonasan’s rendition. A plateau area with marshes, "mariscum", "morass" in old French. This is called אַגָנַיָא—pools, similar to ditches where water settles, "entitled 'the earth's flasks.'"⁹Kiddushin, 61:a, notes that water filed ditches are entitled אַגׇּנֵי דּֽאַרְעָא, “the earth’s flasks.” Thus, אַגָנַיׇא, “flasks,” refer to the marshland pools.

Separated from Kayin: He separated himself from the rest of the Sons of Kayin who dwelt in the Judean Desert, as it stated at the beginning of the book (Judges 1:16).

Separated: It is vocalized with a kamatz. The explanation is that he separated from the Judean Desert, as the Children of the Kenites had settled there when they went up from the City of Dates.

Of the descendants of Chovav: This refers to Kayin.

Elon-bezaanim: So is it written; but it is read, bezaanannim. Yet it is all the same content, and that is the name of a place that was called for a matter known to them. But Yonatan (in the Targum) translated [it as], the plain of marshes (agaania). It appears that they got it from betzai of water - which in the words of our Rabbis, may their memory be blessed, are holes full of water in the fields that are like pits full of water. And they, may their memory be blessed, mentioned them, as they said (Bava Kamma 61), "they are called pools (agaani) of the land."

And he pitched his tent: And because it will be coming to say that Sisera escaped to the tent of Yael, the wife of Chever the Kenite - therefore it prefaced [it by] saying that Chever separated from Kayin and pitched his tent here.