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
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