John Gill's Exposition on Judges 1:23

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And the house of Joseph sent to descry Bethel, etc.] To reconnoitre the place, to observe its passes and avenues, which were most accessible, and to examine the walls of it, where they were weakest and least defended: now the name of the city before [was] Luz; which signifies a “nut”; perhaps it was so called from large numbers of nut trees which grew near it; the Jews suggest as if it was like a nut, no entrance into it but through a cave or some subterraneous passage, (see <012819>Genesis 28:19).

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