Shaaraim, Adithaim and Gederah (or Gederothaim); fourteen cities with their villages.
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Shaaraim, Adithaim and Gederah (or Gederothaim); fourteen cities with their villages.
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And Sharaim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and Gederothaim; fourteen cities with their villages:
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and Shaaraim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, with Gederothaim; fourteen cities with their villages.
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Passages linked to Joshua 15:36 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 1 Samuel 17:52 The men of Israel and of Judah arose and shouted, and pursued the Philistines as far as Gai and to the gates of Ekron. The wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way to Shaaraim, even to Gath and to Ekron.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Object. There are fifteen numbered.
Object. There are fifteen numbered.
Answ. Either one of them was no city strictly called; or
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Gederah and
Gederothaim is put for Gederah or Gederothaim, so called, possibly, because the city was double, as there want not instances of one city divided into two parts, called the old and the new city. So the conjunction and is put for the disjunctive or, whereof examples have been given before.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Zenan,.... Here begins another list or catalogue of the…
Zenan,.... Here begins another list or catalogue of the cities in the valley or plain. Zenan perhaps is the same with Zaanan, Mic 1:11,
and Hadashah was so small a city in Judea in the times of the Misnic doctors, that they say (t) it had but fifty dwellings in it; and Jerom speaks (u) of a place called Adasa, in the tribe of Judah, in his times a village near Guphua; it should be Taphna:
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and Migdalgad, of which we nowhere else read; some think it had its name from some famous exploit done here by one of the tribe of Gad, who came over with Joshua to assist in the war, as the stone of Bohan the Reubenite, Jos 15:6.
(t) Misn. Eruvim, c. 5. sect. 6. (u) De loc. Heb. fol. 88. F.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 36. Gederah] See Clarke on Jos 12:13.
Verse 36. Gederah] See Clarke on Jos 12:13.
Fourteen cities] Well reckoned, we shall find fifteen cities here; but probably Gederah and Gederothaim (Jos 15:36) are the same. See Clarke on Jos 15:32.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Fourteen. One of those mentioned above, may have been…
Fourteen. One of those mentioned above, may have been a village. (Menochius) --- Others think that Enaim may be the name of a fountain, near which perhaps Juda met Thamar, Genesis xxxviii. 14.
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 36. Fourteen cities — Fifteen are enumerated, which discrepancy…
36. Fourteen cities — Fifteen are enumerated, which discrepancy may be explained as that in Jos_15:32, or by supposing, as is very probable, that the last named city, Gederothaim, is an ancient gloss introduced by some confusion of Gederah with the Gederoth of Jos_15:41.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 36. fourteen cities] The LXX. omits Gederothaim, which makes…
36. fourteen cities] The LXX. omits Gederothaim, which makes fourteen instead of fifteen cities.
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