John Gill's Exposition on 2 Samuel 24:6

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Then they came to Gilead, etc.] The land of Gilead, half of which was given to the tribes of Reuben and Gad, and the other half to the half tribe of Manasseh, (<050312>Deuteronomy 3:12,13); which tribes were numbered, and the first of all: and to the land of Tahtimhodshi; or the low lands of a new place; it seems to be a country newly possessed and inhabited; the Targum calls it the southern land of Hodshi; Bunting f412 calls it the lower country of Hodshi, near to the city Corazin, in the half tribe of Manasseh, fifty two miles from Jerusalem, and towards the northeast, and signifies a new land: and they came to Danjaan; the same that is simply called Dan, and formerly Leshem, (<061947>Joshua 19:47); why Juan is added to it is not easy to say; it lay at the northern border of the land of Israel, and was four miles from Paneas as you go to Tyre f413: and about to Zidon; from Dan they went round about to Zidon, to the parts adjacent to it; for with Zidon itself they had nothing to do, of which (see Gill on “<061108>Joshua 11:8”).

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