And Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages:
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 Humtah,.... Of Humtah we nowhere else read: and Kirjatharba, which is Hebron; of Kirjatharba we read frequently; See Gill on Jos 14:15, and Zior; Jerom says (o), that in his time there was a village shown by the name of Sihor, between Aelia (or Jerusalem) and Eleutheropolis, in the tribe of Judah: nine cities with their villages; which is exactly their number, as expressed...
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