John Gill's Exposition on Joshua 18:23

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And Avim, and Parah, etc.] Of the two first of these we read nowhere else; and Ophrah is not the same with Ophrah in (<070611>Judges 6:11); that belonged to the tribe of Manasseh, but rather that which was in the land of Shuah, (<091317>1 Samuel 13:17). Jerom calls this place Aphrah, in the tribe of Benjamin, and says f416, in his time there was a village called Effrem, five miles from Bethel to the east, which very probably is the same with this.

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