John Gill's Exposition on Joshua 15:42

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Libnah, etc.] Here begins another division or list of the cities of Judah, in the valley or plain. Libnah is the same with Libnah, a royal city; (see <061029>Joshua 10:29 12:15); and Ether was given to the tribe of Simeon, (<061907>Joshua 19:7); and under Ether of the lot of Simeon, Jerom writes f352, there is now a very large village called Jethira, in interior Daroma, near Malatha, twenty miles from Eleutheropolis; and Ashan also was given to the tribe of Simeon, (<061907>Joshua 19:7); and the above writer relates f353, that there was in his times a village called Bethasan, belonging to Aelia, or Jerusalem, fifteen miles from it.

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