Hazar-shual, Beersheba, Biziothiah,
Bethlehem appears nowhere in this list, though it would later magnify David and bear the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ. Yet even so, a city so little among thousands of Judah finds its true honor not in this enumeration but in the One whose cradle it became.
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Commenting on Joshua 15:20-63
Baalah,.... Baalah was given to the tribe of Simeon, Jos 19:3; for Baalah is the same with Balah there, as it is with Bilba, Ch1 4:29; though according to the Jerusalem Talmud (i) it is the same with Baalah, given to the tribe of Dan, Jos 19:44; and was one of those places whose houses were in Judah and their fields in Dan: and Azem...
These cities divide Judah's inheritance into four clear districts: the southern Negev, the lowland plain, the highland hills, and the desert wilderness. Each region held its own towns and its own character.
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Commenting on Joshua 15:21-63