John Gill's Exposition on Joshua 19:15

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And Kattath, and Nahallal, etc.] Of the two first of these we read nowhere else, but in (<062134>Joshua 21:34,35 <070130>Judges 1:30); and Shimron was a royal city, the king of which Joshua took and hanged, (<061101>Joshua 11:1 12:20); and Idalah is a place Bochart conjectures f443 where the goddess Venus was worshipped, Idalia being one of her names; and Bethlehem is a different place from that which was the birthplace of our Lord, called Bethlehem of Judah, to distinguish it from this: twelve cities with their villages; more are named, but some of them belonged to other tribes, and only lay on the borders of this; and others might not be properly cities, but small towns.

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