John Gill's Exposition on Joshua 15:48

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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 mountains, etc.] The hill country of Judea, as it is called (<420139>Luke 1:39,65), in which were the following cities: Shamir: the Alexandrian copy of the Greek version reads Sophir as the name, of the first of these cities; and Jerom says f357 there was a village of this name in the mountainous parts, situated between Eleutheropolis, and Ashkelon in the tribe of Judah; (see <330101>Micah 1:11); and Jattir the same writer calls Jether, in the tribe of Judah; and says f358 there was in his time a very large village called Jethira, twenty miles from Eleutheropolis, the inhabitants of which were then all Christians: it was situated in interior Daroma, near Malatha; and Socoh is different from Socoh in (<061535>Joshua 15:35); that was in the plain, this in the mountain; (see Gill on “<061535>Joshua 15:35”).

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