John Gill's Exposition on Numbers 32:36

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And Bethnimrah, and Bethharan, fenced cities, etc.] The first of these is the same with Nimrah, (<043203>Numbers 32:3), and the other is the same with Betharam, (<061327>Joshua 13:27), it is called in the Jerusalem Talmud f469, Bethramtha, and so by the Syrians, Bethramphta; and to the same place Herod gave the name of Livias or Julias f470: these cities the children of Gad built or repaired for their families: and folds for sheep; they also built for their cattle, as they promised to do, and Moses enjoined them, (<043216>Numbers 32:16,24,26).

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