John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 15:33
And in the valley ,.... In Joshua 15:33 are enumerated the several cities belonging to the tribe of Judah which lay in the valley. Jerom F6 De. loc. Heb. fol. 94. M. says, that now all the plain and champaign country near Eleutheropolis, which verges to the north and west, is called "Sephela", or the valley: Eshtaol ; the two first of these seem to be given afterwards to the tribe of Dan, Joshua 19:41 ; between these two places Samson was born and buried, Judges 13:2 ; they... read more
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