some one of the villages = in Cepherim (Neh_7:29. Ezr_2:25); now Kefr 'Ana, twenty-five miles from Jerusalem; eight miles east of Jaffa; six miles north of Lydda.
plain = valley, or combe.
Ono. Now Kefr 'Ana, five miles north of Lydda (Ezr_2:33). Compare Ch. Neh_11:31.
mischief: to kill or capture Nehemiah. Compare Pro_26:24.