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  • WEB World English Bible

    Arab, Dumah, Eshan,

  • KJV King James Version

    Arab, and Dumah, and Eshean,

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    Arab, and Rumah, and Eshan;

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Passages linked to Joshua 15:52 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Isaiah 21:11 The burden of Dumah. One calls to me out of Seir, “Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?”

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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Maon, Carmel,.... Maon was the dwelling place of Nabal…

Maon, Carmel,.... Maon was the dwelling place of Nabal the Carmelite, whose possessions were in Carmel, and were not far from one another, Sa1 25:2. It gave name to a wilderness near where David hid himself from Saul, Sa1 23:25; Jerom (p) places it to the east of Daroma, who also informs (q) us, that there was in his time a village that went by the name of Carmelia, ten miles from Hebron towards the east, and where was a Roman garrison.

and Ziph, according to the same writer (r), was eight miles from Hebron to the east; and there was a village shown in his time where David was hid; this gave name to a wilderness also, Sa1 23:14,

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and Juttah, which Jerom calls (s) Jeshan, was in his time a large village of the Jews, eighteen miles from Eleutheropolis, to the southern part in Daroma. Reland (t) conjectures that this was the native place of John the Baptist; and that, instead of "a city of Judah", it should be read "the city Juta", Luk 1:39.

(p) De loc. Heb. fol. 93. E. (q) lbid. fol. 92. C. (r) Ibid. fol. 95. G. (s) Ibid. fol. 92. I. (t) Palestin. Illustrat. tom. 2. p. 870.

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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 52. This next group of cities was north of…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 52. Arab. Group II. includes nine cities to the…
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