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Joshua 15:48

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And in the mountains,.... The hill country of Judea, as it is called Lu 1:39, in which were the following cities:

Shamir: the Alexandrian copy of the Greek version reads Sophir as the name, of the first of these cities; and Jerom says (d) there was a village of this name in the mountainous parts, situated between Eleutheropolis, and Ashkelon in the tribe of Judah; see Micah 1:11;

and Jattir the same writer calls Jether, in the tribe of Judah; and says (e) there was in his time a very large village called Jethira, twenty miles from Eleutheropolis, the inhabitants of which were then all Christians: it was situated in interior Daroma, near Malatha;

and Socoh is different from Socoh in Joshua 15:35; that was in the plain, this in the mountain; [See comments on Joshua 15:35].

(d) De loc. Heb. fol. 94. I. (e) Ibid. fol. 92. l.

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