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John Gill's Exposition on Joshua 19:9

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Out of the portion of the children of Judah [was] the inheritance of the children of Simeon, etc.] Which is the reason why no description is given of the border of their inheritance, because that is before given in the account of the lot of Judah: for the part of the children of Judah was too much for them: they had more cities than they could fill with people, and more land than they could cultivate; they had an hundred fourteen cities with their villages: therefore the children of Simeon had their inheritance within the inheritance of them; the one being a small tribe, and the other large, and for the reasons given; (see Gill on “<061901>Joshua 19:1”).
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