John Gill's Exposition on Joshua 13:26

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And from Heshbon unto Ramathmizpeh, and Betonim, etc.] This was their coast from the south to the north, and so describes their eastern border, which reached from Heshbon, given to the tribe of Reuben, (<061307>Joshua 13:7); to these places mentioned; Ramathmizpeh, the same with Ramothgilead, which Jerom f286 says was a village in his time, and lay two miles from Philadelphia or Rabbath before mentioned, to the east; it should be to the west; of Betonim we nowhere else read, it seems to have been near to Ramath: and from Mahanaim unto the border of Debir; the former of these was the place where the angels met Jacob, and who gave it the name from thence; and in later times a city of this name was built there, and was near the river Jabbok, (<013202>Genesis 32:2); Debir is different from that in the tribe of Judah, (<061515>Joshua 15:15); in the Septuagint version here it is called Daibon, perhaps the same with Dibon, the tribe of Gad rebuilt, and is called Dibongad, (<043234>Numbers 32:34 33:45); unless Lidbar here should be the same with Lodebar in Gilead, (<101727>2 Samuel 17:27).

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