John Gill's Exposition on Joshua 19:38

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And Iron, etc.] Of Iron no mention is made elsewhere; and Migdalel, which Jerom calls Magdiel, he says f484 was shown a small village, five miles from Dara, as you go to Ptolemais; and Horem is not mentioned anywhere elsewhere; and Bethanath; Jerom also relates f485, that Bathana, in the tribe of Naphtali, was a village that went by the name of Betbanes, fifteen miles from Caesarea; and Bethshemesh was another city, in which was a temple dedicated to the sun, when inhabited by the Canaanites; (see <061922>Joshua 19:22); and so in Bethanath there might be a temple dedicated to some deity, though now uncertain what: nineteen cities with their villages; there are more mentioned, but some of them might be only boundaries, and so belonged to another tribe.

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