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John Gill's Exposition on Joshua 13:27
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And in the valley, Betharam, etc.] The same with Bethharan, (see Gill on “<043236>Numbers 32:36”): and Bethnimrah; sometimes called Nimrah, (<043203>Numbers 32:3,36); near to which were some waters, called the waters of Nimrim, (<231506>Isaiah 15:6); It was in Jerom’s f287 time a large village; it seems to have its name from leopards, which perhaps had their haunts hereabout: and Succoth: the place where Jacob pitched his tent after he had passed over Jabbok; it is called in the Jerusalem Talmud f288 Thaarabah: and Zaphon; which in the same Talmud is Amatho or Amathus, which Jerom says f289 is a village beyond Jordan, twenty one miles from Pella to the south, though he places it in the tribe of Reuben: the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon; which was not given to the tribe of Reuben, (<061321>Joshua 13:21); Jordan and [his] border; that is, the cities which were near it, as Kimchi; or that were upon the bank of it, as Jarchi; [even] unto the edge of the sea of Chinnereth; the same with the lake of Gennesaret, (<420501>Luke 5:1); on the other side Jordan eastward; the other from that in which the inheritance of Gad lay, which was beyond Jordan, from the land of Canaan.
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