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John Gill's Exposition on Judges 10:5

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And Jair died, and was buried in Camon.] A city of Gilead, as Josephus f217 calls it; Jerom f218, under this word Camon, makes mention of a village in his times, called Cimana, in the large plain six miles from Legion to the north, as you go to Ptolemais; but, as Reland f219 observes, this seems not to be the same place, but rather this is the Camon Polybius f220 speaks of among other cities of Peraea, taken by Antiochus.
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