men liers in wait
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
(See CHEZIB.) The descendants of Shelah, Judah's son, are called "the men of Chozeba, ... and these are ancient things" (1Ch_4:22). Identified by Conder (Palestine Exploration, Jan. 1875) with Khirbet Kueizibah. The houses are standing to the height of eight or ten feet. The indications on the hill imply great antiquity. How accurate Scripture is in its names and topography! The Talmud mentions that a plain is in front of Chozeba; so Kueizibah has before it the valley of Berachoth (wady Arrub).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Choze'ba. 1Ch_4:22. Perhaps the same as Achzib.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
kō̇-zē?ba (כּזבא, kōzēbhā), ?deceitful?): Same as ACHZIB and CHEZIB (which see).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Chozeba
(Hebrews Kozeba´, כֹּזֵבָא, lying; Sept. Χωζηβά, Vulg. mendacium), a place whose inhabitants ("men of Chozeba") are named (1Ch_4:22) among the descendants of Shelah, the son of Judah. The name is sufficiently like the CHEZIB (and especially the reading of the Samaritan Codex of that name, כזבה) where Shelah was born (Gen_38:5) to suggest that the two refer to the same place; that, namely, elsewhere (Jos_15:44) called ACHZIB SEE ACHZIB (q.v.) in Judah.
Chozeba (ADDENDUM):
(1Ch_4:22) is thought by Lieutenant Conder (Tent-Work, 2:336) to be possibly the ruin Kueziba, north-east of Hebron (Quar. Report of "Pal. Explor. Fund," January 1881, page 51); but it is not necessary to distinguish the place from Chezib or Achzib..
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.