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John Gill's Exposition on Joshua 18:14
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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And the border was drawn [thence], etc.] From Bethhoron: and compassed the corner of the sea southward; it is hard to say what sea is meant, or what by it. Fuller f412 conjectures, that as the Hebrews call any confluence of water a sea, as we call such a “mere”, the great waters in Gibeon may be meant, (<244112>Jeremiah 41:12); for it cannot mean the Mediterranean sea, for Dan lay between Benjamin and that; and yet if a sea is meant, no other can be; wherefore it is best to render it the “west quarter”, as it is in the latter part of this verse; and so the same word is translated, (<061812>Joshua 18:12); the “west”, and not the “sea”, as it sometimes is; for the border of Benjamin did not reach the sea any where; though Josephus f413 makes it to extend to it, and says, that the length of it was from the river Jordan to the sea: the hill that [lieth] before Bethhoron southward; the hill that lay to the south of nether Bethhoron, as in (<061813>Joshua 18:13): and the goings out thereof, the end of the western coast, were at Kirjathbaal, which [is] Kirjathjearim, a city of the children of Judah; of which (see <061509>Joshua 15:9,60); this [was] the west quarter; as thus described.
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