John Gill's Exposition on Joshua 15:54

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And Humtah, etc.] Of Humtah we nowhere else read; and Kirjatharba, which [is] Hebron; of Kirjatharba we read frequently; (see Gill on “<061415>Joshua 14:15”); and Zior; Jerom says f367, that in his time there was a village shown by the name of Sihor, between Aelia (or Jerusalem) and Eleutheropolis, in the tribe of Judah: nine cities with their villages; which is exactly their number, as expressed; here ends the second division, or of the cities in the hill country of Judea; a third follows.

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