John Gill's Exposition on Joshua 15:53

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And Janum, etc.] Under the word “Janum”, Jerom writes f364, there is a village called Janua, three miles from Legion to the south, but seems not to be what is written; and Bethtappuah is by Jerom called Bethaphu f365, and said to be a village in the tribe of Judah, fourteen miles beyond Raphia, as you go to Egypt, which is the border of Palestine; and Aphekah; Jerom speaks f366 of a large castle in his time called Apheca, near the town of Palestine; there were several places of the name of Aphek; (see Gill on “<061218>Joshua 12:18”). As for Bethtappuah, it seems to be a place which was dedicated to a deity to which apples were sacred, in memory of the apple by which mankind was seduced; there was in later times a goddess called Pomona from hence.

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