John Gill's Exposition on Joshua 15:5

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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 east border [was] the salt sea, [even] unto the end of Jordan, etc.] To the place where Jordan fell into it; so that this border was the whole length of the salt sea, which Josephus says f295 was five hundred eighty furlongs; and, according to Pliny f296, an hundred miles: and [their] border in the north quarter [was] from the bay of the sea, at the uttermost part of Jordan; this northern border began where the eastern ended, at the bay or creek of the sea, where Jordan fell into it.

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