John Gill's Exposition on Joshua 12:15

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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The king of Libnah, one, etc.] Taken at the same time as the kings of Makkedah, Debir, and of other places were, (<061029>Joshua 10:29,30); the king of Adullam, one; a city in the tribe of Judah, (<061535>Joshua 15:35); Jerom says f257 there was a village in his time, not a small one, called by this name, ten miles to the east of Eleutheropolis: near to this place was a cave where David hid himself when he fled from Saul, (<092201>1 Samuel 22:1); (see Gill on “<330101>Micah 1:15”).

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