Joshua 15:48

48 In the hill country: Shamir, Jattir, 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).

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FOOTNOTES:

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

Joshua 15:48 In-Context

46 from Ekron to the sea, all [the cities] near Ashdod, with their villages;

47 Ashdod, with its towns and villages; Gaza, with its towns and villages, to the Brook of Egypt and the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea.

48 In the hill country: Shamir, Jattir, Socoh,

49 Dannah, Kiriath-sannah (that is, Debir),

50 Anab, Eshtemoh, Anim,