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John Gill's Exposition on Joshua 10:3
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Wherefore Adonizedek king of Jerusalem sent to Hoham king of Hebron, etc.] Which, according to Jerom f162 was twenty two miles from Jerusalem; it was an ancient city built seven years before Zoan in Egypt; (see Gill on “<011318>Genesis 13:18”) and (see Gill on “<041322>Numbers 13:22”): and unto Piram king of Jarmuth; a city which fell to the lot of Judah, as did Hebron, (<061535>Joshua 15:35,54); according to Jerom f163, it was four miles distant from Eleutheropolis; according to Procopius f164 fourteen, about the village Eshtaol, near to which Samson was buried, (<071631>Judges 16:31); but Jerom f165 speaks of a city called Jermus, in the tribe of Judah, which seems to be the same with this; and which he says in his day was a village, that went by the name of Jermucha, ten miles from Eleutheropolis, as you go to Aelia or Jerusalem; and as Eleutheropolis lay twenty miles from Jerusalem, this place must be ten miles from it, lying between them both: and unto Japhia king of Lachish; which the above writer says f166 was a city in the tribe of Judah, and in his time a village, seven miles from Eleutheropolis, as you go to Daroma, or the south; and, according to Bunting f167, it lay between Eleutheropolis and Hebron, and was twenty miles from Jerusalem towards the southwest: and unto Debir king of Eglon; which the Septuagint version calls Odollam or Adullam; and Jerom, following this version, makes Eglon the same with Adullam, when it is certain they were different places, and had distinct kings over them, (<061212>Joshua 12:12,15); and which he says f168 in his time was a very large village, twelve miles from Eleutheropolis to the east; and, according to Bunting f169 it was twelve miles from Jerusalem southward. To these four kings the king of Jerusalem sent: saying; as follows.
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