Jattir: Joshua 21:14 Reciprocal: Joshua 15:35 - Socoh Judges 10:1 - Shamir 1 Samuel 30:27 - Jattir 1 Chronicles 4:18 - Socho 1 Chronicles 6:57 - Jattir 2 Chronicles 28:18 - Shocho Luke 1:39 - into read more
Kirjathsannah: Joshua 15:15, Judges 1:11 Reciprocal: Joshua 10:38 - Debir Joshua 21:15 - Debir 1 Chronicles 6:58 - Debir read more
Reciprocal: Joshua 21:14 - Eshtemoa 1 Samuel 30:28 - Eshtemoa 1 Chronicles 4:17 - Eshtemoa read more
Goshen: Joshua 10:41, Joshua 11:16 Giloh: 2 Samuel 15:12 Reciprocal: Joshua 21:15 - Holon 1 Chronicles 6:58 - Hilen read more
And in the mountains, Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh,The mountains — That is, in the higher grounds called mountains or hills, in comparison of the sea-coast. read more
ORIGINAL LOT OF JUDAH, Joshua 15:1-63. [The tribe of Judah received the first allotment, and a very disproportionate share of the Land of Promise, for its territory embraced nearly the half of western Palestine. This original lot, however, was afterwards diminished by assigning a part of it to Simeon. Joshua 19:1. The original borders, districts, and cities of Judah are detailed with great minuteness in this chapter, and to a much greater extent than those of any other tribe. Grove suggests... read more
48. Mountains The highlands of Judah were bounded by the lowlands on the west, the wilderness adjacent to the Dead Sea on the east, the Negeb on the south, and a line touching Jerusalem on the north. At Hebron the land is three thousand feet above the level of the sea. Many fruitful valleys, whose lower declivities are clothed with verdure, wind into the mountain from the lowlands between rugged chalk cliffs. The cities of this district are enumerated in five groups, or, if we accept the... read more
49. Kirjath-sannah The English reader will be assisted in his understanding of many of these names if he remembers that Kirjath means city. The word following completes the sense, as Kirjath-sannah, city of literature. Debir See on Joshua 10:38. read more
50. Anab is still existing northwest of Socoh, without change of name. Eshtemoh is probably the modern Semua, “a considerable village, with remains of a wall, built of stones more than ten feet in length.” Robinson. read more
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Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Joshua 15:1-63
Joshua 15:1 . This then was the lot of Judah. After the arduous toils of war, Joshua entered on an administration of affairs little less difficult than the conquest itself. The country was now rather hastily divided into ten lots, keeping in view the covenant made with those who had already received inheritance on the left bank of the Jordan, and reserving the right to vary the proportion of land to the population of the tribe. The elders proceeded to the important duties of the day in the... read more