See:
- Philip J. King, Jeremiah: An Archaeological Companion, Westminster John Knox Press 1993, p. 53
- Aharon Kempinski, Tel Masos. Its Importance in Relation to the Settlement of the Tribes of Israel in the Northern Negev, 1978 - https://www.penn.museum/documents/publications/expedition/PDFs/20-4/Kempinski.pdf
- Itzhaq Beit-Arieh: Tel Malhata: A Central City in the Biblical Negev, Eisenbrauns 2015
- Brian B. Schmidt; Contextualizing Israel’s Sacred Writing: Ancient Literacy, Orality, and Literary Production, SBL Press 2015, pp. 55-56