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John Gill's Exposition on Joshua 19:28
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And Hebron, etc.] Hebron seems to be the same with Abdon, (<062130>Joshua 21:30 <130674>1 Chronicles 6:74); r and d being changed, of which there are other instances; and hereby this is distinguished from another Hebron in the tribe of Judah, more commonly known, (<061554>Joshua 15:54); and Rehob; in the time of Jerom f466, there was a village called Rooba, four miles from Scythopolis, and which he says was a city separated to the Levites, as this was, or one of the same name in this tribe; for there was another, (<061930>Joshua 19:30); (see <062131>Joshua 21:31); but whether either of them is the same with this is not certain; and Hammon; of this city we read nowhere else: and Kanah; this Kanah is generally thought to be the same where Christ wrought his first miracle, (<430201>John 2:1,11). Jerom expressly says f467, there was a Cana in the tribe of Asher, where our Lord and Saviour turned water into wine, (<430201>John 2:1), and from whence was Nathanael, (<432102>John 21:2); and it is at this day, adds he, a town in Galilee of the Gentiles. Phocas f468 places Cana between Sippori and Nazareth, which is now shown six Roman miles from Sippori to the west, a little inclining to the north; and there is also in the same tract Cephar Cana, four miles from Nazareth to the north, inclining to the east; and it is disputed which of these two is Cana of Galilee the New Testament: with this account agrees pretty much what our countryman Mr. Maundrell f469 gives of his travels in those parts: “taking leave of Nazareth, (he says,) and going at first northward, we crossed the hills that encompassed the vale of Nazareth at that side; after which we turned to the westward, and passed in view of Cana of Galilee, the place signalized with the beginning of Christ’s miracles, (<430211>John 2:11); in an hour and a half more we came to Sepharia;” or Sippori: [even] unto great Zidon; of great Zidon, and why so called, (see Gill on “<061108>Joshua 11:8”).
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