John Gill's Exposition on Joshua 21:18

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Anathoth with her suburbs, etc.] This is not mentioned among the cities of Benjamin, (<061811>Joshua 18:11-28); it was the native place of the Prophet Jeremiah, (see Gill on “<240101>Jeremiah 1:1”); it lay about two or three miles north of Jerusalem; three, says, Jerom f507. Rauwolff f508 speaks of it as a small village, when he travelled into those parts, and as lying on a height or eminence, and which was within twenty furlongs of Jerusalem, as Josephus writes f509: and Almon with her suburbs; this also is not mentioned among the cities of Benjamin, (<061811>Joshua 18:11-28); it is called Alemeth, (<130660>1 Chronicles 6:60). Jarchi and Kimchi say it is the same with Bahurim, (<100316>2 Samuel 3:16); where the Targum renders it by Almeth, and both words signify the same thing, “youth”: four cities; which were a large number for so small a tribe as little Benjamin to give.

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