And Kinah, and Dimonah, and Adadah,
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
And Kedesh,.... The first of these cities seems to be Kadeshbarnea, which was to the south of the land, and on the borders of Edom, from whence the spies were sent, Num 32:8, and Hazor is another city from that which is mentioned, Jos 11:1; and was in the tribe of Naphtali: and Ithnan, which Jerom (c) calls Jedna, was, according to him, six miles...
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