Goshen, Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages.
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Goshen, Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages.
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And Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages:
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and Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages.
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Passages linked to Joshua 15:51 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Joshua 10:41 Joshua struck them from Kadesh Barnea even to Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, even to Gibeon.
- Joshua 11:16 So Joshua captured all that land, the hill country, all the South, all the land of Goshen, the lowland, the Arabah, the hill country of Israel, and the lowland of the same;
- 2 Samuel 15:12 Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he was offering the sacrifices. The conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Goshen. Jos 10:41
Goshen. Jos 10:41
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And Humtah,.... Of Humtah we nowhere else read:
And Humtah,.... Of Humtah we nowhere else read:
and Kirjatharba, which is Hebron; of Kirjatharba we read frequently; See Gill on Jos 14:15,
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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; here ends the second division, or of the cities in the hill country of Judea; a third follows.
(o) De loc. Heb. fol. 94. H.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 51. Goshen] See Clarke on Jos 10:41.
Verse 51. Goshen] See Clarke on Jos 10:41.
Giloh] The country of the traitor Ahithophel, 2Sa 15:12.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 51. Giloh, perhaps identical with the modern Rafat, a…
51. Giloh, perhaps identical with the modern Rafat, a little south of Eshtemoh, was the birth-place of Ahithophel, and the scene of his suicide. 2Sa_15:12; 2Sa_17:23.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (51) Goshen is thought by some to give a…
(51) Goshen is thought by some to give a name to the land of Goshen in Jos_10:41, but the place is insignificant, and not identified; and to take the land of Goshen as frontier or border land seems a very much more reasonable interpretation.
Giloh—the home of Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s and Absalom’s counsellor (2Sa_15:12, &c).
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Giloh. Perhaps the city of Ahithophel.
Giloh. Perhaps the city of Ahithophel.
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