John Gill's Exposition on Joshua 18:21

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, according to their families, were Jericho, etc.] Which though destroyed, and not to be rebuilt as a city, was yet a place inhabited, and in future times was rebuilt, and in great splendour, and continued to the time of Christ; of which (see <060201>Joshua 2:1); and Bethhoglah, where or near to which was the threshing floor of Atad, at which lamentation was made for Jacob, (see Gill on “<010110>Genesis 1:10”), and (see Gill on “<061506>Joshua 15:6”); and the valley of Keziz; or Emekkeziz; so the Greek version calls it Amecasis: it is highly probable it was in the valley or plain of Jericho, and perhaps might have its name from the incision of the balsam tree there; which, as Pliny f415 says, was cut with glass or a stone, or with knives made of bone; if cut with iron, it kills it.

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