Joshua 15:48

48 And in the hill-country: Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh,

Joshua 15:48 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 15:48

And in the mountains
The hill country of Judea, as it is called ( Luke 1:39 Luke 1:65 ) , 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 F4 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 F5 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 Gill on Joshua 15:35).


FOOTNOTES:

F4 De loc. Heb. fol. 94. I.
F5 Ibid. fol. 92. l.

Joshua 15:48 In-Context

46 from Ekron and westward, all that [are] by the side of Ashdod, and their villages.
47 Ashdod, its towns and its villages, Gaza, its towns and its villages, unto the brook of Egypt, and the great sea, and [its] border.
48 And in the hill-country: Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh,
49 and Dannah, and Kirjath-Sannah (it [is] Debir)
50 and Anab, and Eshtemoh, and Anim,
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