John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 15:58
Halhul ,.... Here begins a fourth division, or list, of the cities in the mountains. Halhul Jerom calls Ehul, and says F23 De loc. Heb. fol. 91. B. there was in his time in the country belonging to Aelia (or Jerusalem) a village by the name of Ahula, near Hebron; and Bethzur , Jerom says F24 De loc. Heb. fol. 89. G. , was then called Bethseron, a village as you go from Aelia to Hebron, in the twentieth mile, near which was a fountain at the bottom of a mount, where it is said... read more
John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 15:57
Cain ,.... Cain, or Hakain, "that Cain", we nowhere else read of; whether the name was given it by the old Canaanites, in memory of Cain, the son of Adam, is not certain: Gibeah ; there were other places that went by the name of Gibeah; there was a Gibeah in Benjamin, Judges 20:4 , and another in the same tribe called Gibeah of Saul, 1 Samuel 11:4 , to distinguish it from that; but this was in the tribe of Judah. Masius conjectures it is the same with that in 1 Samuel 23:19 which... read more