Arab, Dumah, Eshan,
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
Maon, Carmel,.... Maon was the dwelling place of Nabal the Carmelite, whose possessions were in Carmel, and were not far from one another, Sa1 25:2. It gave name to a wilderness near where David hid himself from Saul, Sa1 23:25; Jerom (p) places it to the east of Daroma, who also informs (q) us, that there was in his time a village that went by...
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