John Gill's Exposition on Joshua 13:18

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And Jahazah, etc.] Called Jahaz, (<042123>Numbers 21:23), where the battle was fought between Sihon and Israel: and Kedemoth; near to which was a wilderness, which took its name from it, from whence Moses sent messengers with words of peace to Sihon, (<050226>Deuteronomy 2:26); and Mephaath; thought to be the Maipha of Ptolemy f278; here Jerom says , in his time was a garrison of Roman soldiers, because of the desert that was near. It was a city, with its suburbs, given to the Levites, as were the two preceding, (<062136>Joshua 21:36,37); Adrichomius f280 takes it to be the same with Malle, which, Josephus says, f281 was called the city of the strangers. f279

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