Or. or. 35 And Sharaim, and Adithaim,and Gederah, * and ' * Gederothaim ; fourteen cities / with their villages.
ſ 0bj. There are r5 numbred. nſw. Either one of them was no city ſtrifly called ; or, Gederah, and Gederothaim is put for Gede- 18h, or Gederothaim, ſo called ; poſſibly becauſe the Ciry was double, and there want not inſtances of one City divided into two parts,
called the old and the new City. Se the conjunttion and is pur for the diſjunQive or, whereof examples have been given before.
enan, and Hedaſhah, and Migdal-gad, 2” war Dilean, and Mizpeh, and Jokthee], 29 Lachi(h, and Bozkah, and Eglon, 45 And Cabbon, and Lahmas, and Kithliſh, 1 And Gederoth, Beth-dagon, and Naamah, and
Makkedah : fixteen cities with thetr villages, 42 Libnah z, and Ether, and Aſhan, b. Libnah. See Joſb. 10. 29. | ax Jiphra, ard Aſhnah, and Nezib, 44 And Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareſbah : nine
Cities with their villages.
45 Ekron « with her + towns x, and her villages y.
T Heb. u Here and in the following Verſes are contained all the Cities of Daugh- the Philiſtines, among W hich are Gath and Askelon, which peradven- ny. ou ture are here emitted, becauſe they were nor at this time places of dd power and eminenCy, AS afterwards they were, but were the Daughrers of ſome of thele following Cirtes, though afrerwards the
Daughter might overtop the Mother, as is uſual. x Heb. Her Daugh-
ters, 5. e+ leſſer Cities, or great Towns, ſubje& ro Ekroxs Juriſdidi.
owns or Hamlets.
24 46 CS Ekrda even unto the ſea, allthat lay + near
Aſhdod with their villages. + ab. by 47 Aſbded with her T towns and her villages ; Gaza the place with her * towns and her villages, unto the river of E. of. oypt, and the great ſea, and the border thereof 2. | * Feb. Z i. e The Sca-coaſt and all other cities, towns and villages upon it. Daugh- 48 © And in the mountains «, Shamir, and Jattir, — w_— _— higher grounds called mountains or hills, in com- pariſon of the Sea-coaſt.
49 And Dannah,and Kirjath-ſannah, which 5: Debir 6.
bþ Which allo is called Kiriath-ſepher, above v. 15: So this City had three Names:
5o And Anab, and Eſhtemoh, and Anim,
51 And Gofhen c, and Holon, and Giloh : eleven cities with their villages.
Ee Joſ[np: IO: | þ-
pr Ab. wad Dumah, and Eſhean, lor, Ja. $3 And|{Januw, and Beth-tappuah, and Aphekah, a 54 And Humrab, and * Kirjath-arba, ( which ;s He- * Chap. bron ) and Zior : nine cities with their villages. 14-15- «os Maond, Carmel e, and Ziph f, and Jurtah,
d Of which ſee 1 Sam: 23: 25: and 25: 2: e Navals Conntrey,
H UDO 4. Chap. Xv1.. |
1 Sam: 25: f Which gave its name to the Nei ghbouring Mountain, 1 Sam: 26: 1:
56 AndJezreel, and Jokdeam, and Zzroah,
57 Cain, Gibeah, and Timnah : ten cities with their villages.
58 Halhul, Beth-zur, and Gedeor,
59 And Maarath. and Beth- anoth, and Eltekon : fix cities with their villages.
60 Kirjath-baal ( which 5s Kirfath-jearim ) and Rab- bah : two cities with their viiages.
61 © In the wilderneſs g, Beth-arabah, Meddin, ar:d
Secacah, g So the Hebrews call places either uninhabited by men, or having bur few Inhabirants.
62 And Nibſhan, and the city of ſalt b, and Enx <di : ſix cities with their villages.
þ So called either from the Salt-ſea, which was near it ; or from the Salt which was made in it, or about it:
63 As for the Jebuſites the Inhabicants ef Feruſa- lem z, the children of Judah could not drive them: out k: but the Febuſites dwell with the children of Judah ar
| Zeruſalem / unto this day w.
; For though Jeruſalem was in part taken by Joſhua before this; yet the upper and ſtronger part of it, called Zico, was ſtill kept by the Jebuſites, even until Davids time ; and it ſeems from thence they de. {cended to the lower Town called Jeruſalem, and took it ; ſo that the Iſraelites were forced to win it a ſecond time ; yea, and a third time alſo: for afterwards ir was poſſeſſed by the Jebuſites, Jud: 19: 11: 2 Sam: 5: 6, 7: k Namely, becauſe of their unbelief, as Chriſt could ao no mighty work == becauſe of the peoples unbelief, Mark 6: 5, 6: Mat; 13: 58: and becauſe of their Sloth, and Cowardice, and Wickedneſs, whereby they forfeited Gods help, and then they muſt needs be im- potent ;bur this inability was wiltul, and brought upon them by themſelves: 1 The ſame things which are here ſaid of the children of Judah, are ſaid of the Benjamites, Jud: 1: 21: Hence ariſeth a que. tion, To which of the Tribes Jernſalem belonged ? whether to Benjamin, as 1s gathered from Gen: 49: 27: Deut. 33: 12: Jer: 6: 1: or to Judah, as is implied here, and Pſal; 78: 68, 69: Some think, that being in the Bo:ders of both, ir was common to both, and pro- miſcucuſly inhabited by both ; and ir is certain, thar after the Cap- cvity 1t was pcfl f{:d by both, Neh; 11. 4+ But for the orelent, *thovgh it did be!ong to Benjamin, yet the children of Judah being poſſibly very ative in the firſt raking cf it by Jeſbua, as they cer- tainly wereafrer his Death, Jud. 1. 8. they might thereby get ſome right ſhare with the Benjamites in the poſſeſſion of ir, It ſeems moſt probable, that parr of it, and indeed the greateſt part, and main body of it, ſtood in the Tribe of Benjamin ; and hence this is ment;oned in the Liſt of theis Cities, and not in Judahs Liſt ; and part of it ſtcod in Judahs ſhare, even Mount Moriah, on which the Temple was built; and Mount Sioz, when it was taken from the Jebuſites, mw When this Book was written, whether in Joſtuas Life and Old Age, which continued many years after the taking of Je. ruſalem ; or af er his death, when this Clauſe was added here and elſewhere in this Book by ſome other man of God, which muſt neecs be done before Davids time, when the Jebuſites were quite expelled;
and their Fort taken» CHAP. XYL The gencral Boyders of the ſons of Joſeph, 1—— 4. The Borders of Ephraim, 5—9. Some of rhe Canaanites not expelled, but made tributary. 10.
Nd the lor of the children of Foſeph a *fell from + .Fordan by Fericho, unto the + water of Fericho Went þ on the caſt, to the wilderneſs that goech up from Fe- forth.
richo throughout mount Beth-el ;