Joshua 15:35

35 Jarmuth, Adullam, Socoh, Azekah,

Joshua 15:35 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 15:35

Jarmuth, and Adullam
The two first of these were royal cities, of which see ( Joshua 10:3 ) ( 12:15 ) ;

Socoh;
Jerom says ^F13 there were two little villages in his day of the name of Socho, as you go to Aelia (or Jerusalem), from Eleutheropolis, in the ninth mile on the public way, one in the mountain, and the other in the plain, (the same with this,) both of which were called Socoth: of this place was Antigonus, president of the sanhedrim, and successor of Simeon the just, called in the Misnah ^F14 a man of Socho;

and Azekah; (See Gill on Joshua 10:10); it appears to be near to Socoh from ( 1 Samuel 17:1 ) , where the Philistines are said to pitch their camp between them.

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FOOTNOTES:

F13 De loc. Heb. fol. 94. I.
F14 Pirke Abot, c. 1. sect. 3.

Joshua 15:35 In-Context

33 The tribe of Judah got these towns in the western hills: Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah,

34 Zanoah, En Gannim, Tappuah, Enam,

35 Jarmuth, Adullam, Socoh, Azekah,

36 Shaaraim, Adithaim, and Gederah (also called Gederothaim). There were fourteen towns and their villages.

37 Judah was also given these towns in the western hills: Zenan, Hadashah, Migdal Gad,