Joshua 15:33-47

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 15:33

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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 15:34

And Zanoah ,.... The first of these, Jerom says F9 De loc. Heb. fol. 95. G. , is in the borders of Eleutheropolis, as you go to Aelia (or Jerusalem); there is at this day a village called Zanua: and Engannim , which signifies a fountain of gardens, is now (according to the same writer F11 Ibid. fol. 91. E. ) a village near Bethel: and Tappuah was a royal city, of which see Joshua 12:17 . Enaim, in the tribe of Judah, Jerom says F12 Ibid. fol. 91. E. in his day was... 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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 15:39

Lachish ,.... Lachish and Eglon were royal cities, of which see Joshua 10:3 , and Bozkath , is called Boscath, of which place was the mother of King Josiah, 2 Kings 21:1 ; some take it to be the same with Bascana, as in the Apocrypha:"And when he came near to Bascama he slew Jonathan, who was buried there.' (1 Maccabees 13:23) and Eglon also was a royal city, of which see Joshua 10:3 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 15:40

And Cabbon, and Lahmam, and Kithlish. Cities of which we can give no account, not being mentioned elsewhere. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 15:41

And Gederoth ,.... Gederoth is reckoned among the cities of the low country, and south of Judah, 2 Chronicles 28:18 , and Bethdagon ; in it very probably was a temple of Dagon, which was a principal deity of the Philistines, 1 Samuel 5:2 ; Jerom says F24 De loc. Heb. fol. 89. F. in his time was shown a large village called Capherdagon, between Diospolis and Jamnia; of Naamah, the same writer says nothing, only that it was a city of the tribe of Judah: and Makkedah ; see ... read more

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