Joshua 15:42-44

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 15:42

Libnah ,.... Here begins another division or list of the cities of Judah, in the valley or plain. Libnah is the same with Libnah, a royal city; see Joshua 10:29 , and Ether was given to the tribe of Simeon, Joshua 19:7 ; and under Ether of the lot of Simeon, Jerom writes F25 De loc. Heb. fol. 91. C. & 92. I. , there is now a very large village called Jethira, in interior Daroma, near Malatha, twenty miles from Eleutheropolis: and Ashan also was given to the tribe of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 15:43

And Jiphtah ,.... Jiphtah is nowhere else mentioned: and Ashnah ; there was another Ashnah of this tribe, and which was in the vale also, met with already in Joshua 15:33 , and Nezib was in Jerom's F1 De loc. Heb. fol. 93. I. times called Nasib, seven miles from Eleutheropolis, as you go to Hebron. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 15:44

And Keilah ,.... The first of these is a well known city, which David saved from the hands of the Philistines, 1 Samuel 23:1 , &c.; In Jerom's time it was a little village to the east of Eleutheropolis, about eight miles from it, as you go to Hebron; in which was shown the sepulchre of the Prophet Habakkuk F2 De loc. Heb. fol. 90. A. . And Achzib is said to be on the borders of Asher, Joshua 19:29 , and is supposed the same with Chezib, Genesis 38:5 ; and the Ecdippa of... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 15:42

Libnah - See the note on Joshua 10:29 . Ether - From Joshua 19:7 ; we learn that this city was afterwards given to the tribe of Simeon. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 15:44

Keilah - This town was near Hebron, and is said to have been the burying-place of the prophet Habakkuk. David obliged the Philistines to raise the siege of it; (see 1 Samuel 23:1-13 ;); but finding that its inhabitants had purposed to deliver him into the hands of Saul, who was coming in pursuit of him, he made his escape. See this remarkable case explained in the note on Deuteronomy 32:15 ; (note). Mareshah - Called also Maresheth and Marasthi; it was the birth-place of the prophet... 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

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 15:44

Mareshah . One of Rehoboam's fortified cities ( 2 Chronicles 11:8 ). Here Asa met Zerah the Ethiopian, or Cushite, and overthrew him ( 2 Chronicles 14:9 ). Here lived the prophet who foretold the destruction of Jehoshaphat's navy ( 2 Chronicles 20:37 . See also Micah 1:15 ). How Marash, close to Beit-Jibrin or Eleutheropolis (Tristram, Conder). If it be the same as Moresheth-Gath in Micah 1:14 , this adds additional probability to the identification of Gath with Beit-Jibrin (see... 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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