John Gill's Exposition on Joshua 13:5

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And the land of the Giblites, etc.] This was another country that remained unconquered; the Greeks call it Byblus, and near to which Pliny f276 speaks of a place called Gabale, and is now called Gibyle; it is f277 said to be “pleasantly situated by the seaside, and at present it contains but a little extent of ground, but yet more than enough for the small number of its inhabitants:” it was in greater splendour, and its inhabitants of more fame, in the times of Ezekiel, (<262709>Ezekiel 27:9); and all Lebanon toward the sunrising; or east of the land; all that inhabited that mountain remained unconquered, though the conquest was carried as far as the borders thereof: from Baalgad, under Mount Hermon; of which (see <061117>Joshua 11:17); unto the entering into Hamath: which was the north border of the land; (see <043408>Numbers 34:8).

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