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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Joshua 15:20-63

We have here a list of the several cities that fell within the lot of the tribe of Judah, which are mentioned by name, that they might know their own, and both keep it and keep to it, and might neither through cowardice nor sloth lose the possession of what was their own. I. The cities are here named, and numbered in several classes, which they then could account for the reason of better than we can now. Here are, 1. Some that are said to be the uttermost cities towards the coast of Edom,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 15:35

Jarmuth, and Adullam ,.... The two first of these were royal cities, of which see Joshua 10:3 , Socoh ; Jerom says F13 De loc. Heb. fol. 94. I. there were two little villages in his day of the name of Socho, as you go to Aelia (or Jerusalem), from Eleutheropolis, in the ninth mile on the public way, one in the mountain, and the other in the plain, (the same with this,) both of which were called Socoth: of this place was Antigonus, president of the sanhedrim, and successor of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 15:36

And Sharaim ,.... Sharaim seems to be the Saara of Jerom, which he describes as a village on the borders of Eleutheropolis, to the north as you go to Nicopolis (or Emmaus), about ten miles from it in the tribe of Dan or Judah F15 Ut supra. (De loc. Heb. fol. 88. E.) ; there was a place called Bethshaaraim, where the sanhedrim sometimes sat F16 T. Bab. Roshhashauah, fol. 31. 2. , and where R. Judah was buried F17 Gloss. in T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 47. 1. . This seems to be... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 15:37

Zenan ,.... Here begins another list or catalogue of the cities in the valley or plain. Zenan perhaps is the same with Zaanan, Micah 1:11 , and Hadashah was so small a city in Judea in the times of the Misnic doctors, that they say F20 Misn. Eruvim, c. 5. sect. 6. it had but fifty dwellings in it; and Jerom speaks F21 De loc. Heb. fol. 88. F. of a place called Adasa, in the tribe of Judah, in his times a village near Guphua; it should be Taphna: and Migdalgad , of which... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 15:38

And Dilean ,.... Of the first of these nothing is to be said: and Mizpeh , of which name there were cities in other tribes; this in the tribe of Judah was in the times of Jerom F23 De loc. Heb. fol. 93. D. called Mapha, on the borders of Eleutheropolis to the south, as you go to Aelia, or Jerusalem: and Joktheel , of which nothing is to be said. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 15:35

Jarmuth - See the note on Joshua 10:3 . Adullam - See the note on Joshua 12:15 . Socoh - It was near this place that David fought with and slew Goliath, the champion of the Philistines, 1 Samuel 17:1 . read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 15:36

Gederah - See the note on Joshua 12:13 . Fourteen cities - Well reckoned, we shall find fifteen cities here; but probably Gederah and Gederothaim ( Joshua 15:36 ;) are the same. See the note on Joshua 15:32 . read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 15:1-63

The inheritance of Judah. This chapter does not suggest much matter for homiletic treatment. The chief points to be noticed are HOMILIES BY J. WAITE read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Joshua 15:21-63

List of the towns of the tribe of Judah. These are arranged in four divisions, according to the natural features of the district; namely,, those of the Negeb or south country Joshua 15:21-32; of “the valley,” or “the plain” (“Shephelah”, Joshua 15:33-47); of “the mountains” Joshua 15:48-60; and of “the wilderness” Joshua 15:61-62. Many of the identifications are still conjectural only.Joshua 15:21-32. The Negeb was for the most part rocky and arid, and cannot have been at any time very thickly... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Joshua 15:1-63

The tribe of Judah (14:6-15:63)By far the largest portions of Canaan went to the chief tribes, those of Judah and Joseph (cf. Genesis 49:8-12,Genesis 49:22-26). Judah received almost the whole of southern Canaan, and Joseph received almost the whole of central Canaan.Caleb received his special inheritance within the area given to his tribe, Judah. Here he proved that his expression of faith made forty-five years earlier was not mere words. At that time he and Joshua alone in Israel believed... read more

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