Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Jutah,
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Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Jutah,
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Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Juttah,
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Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Juttah;
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Passages linked to Joshua 15:55 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Joshua 15:24 Ziph, Telem, Bealoth,
- 1 Samuel 23:25 Saul and his men went to seek him. When David was told, he went down to the rock, and stayed in the wilderness of Maon. When Saul heard that, he pursued David in the wilderness of Maon.
- 1 Samuel 25:2 There was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great. He had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats; and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.
- 1 Samuel 23:14-15 David stayed in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill country in the wilderness of Ziph. Saul sought him every day, but God didn’t deliver him into his hand. David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life. David was in the wilderness of Ziph in the wood.
- 1 Samuel 25:7 Now I have heard that you have shearers. Your shepherds have now been with us, and we didn’t harm them. Nothing was missing from them all the time they were in Carmel.
- 1 Samuel 26:1-2 The Ziphites came to Saul to Gibeah, saying, “Doesn’t David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before the desert?” Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.
- 1 Kings 18:42 So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he bowed himself down on the earth, and put his face between his knees.
- 2 Chronicles 26:10 He built towers in the wilderness, and dug out many cisterns, for he had much livestock; in the lowland also, and in the plain. He had farmers and vineyard keepers in the mountains and in the fruitful fields, for he loved farming.
- Isaiah 35:2 It will blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing. Lebanon’s glory will be given to it, the excellence of Carmel and Sharon. They will see Yahweh’s glory, the excellence of our God.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Maon; of which see 1Sa 23:25; 25:2.
Maon; of which see 1Sa 23:25; 25:2.
Carmel; Nabal’s country, 1Sa 25.
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Ziph; which gave its name to the neighbouring mountain, 1Sa 26:1.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Halhul,.... Here begins a fourth division, or list, of…
Halhul,.... Here begins a fourth division, or list, of the cities in the mountains. Halhul Jerom calls Ehul, and says (w) there was in his time in the country belonging to Aelia (or Jerusalem) a village by the name of Ahula, near Hebron; and
Bethzur, Jerom says (x), was then called Bethseron, a village as you go from Aelia to Hebron, in the twentieth mile, near which was a fountain at the bottom of a mount, where it is said the eunuch was baptized by Philip: he makes mention of another village called Bethsur in the tribe of Judah, a mile from Eleutheropolis. In the Apocrypha:"So he came to Judea, and drew near to Bethsura, which was a strong town, but distant from Jerusalem about five furlongs, and he laid sore siege unto it.'' (2 Maccabees 11:5)it is said to be but five furlongs from Jerusalem, but it must have been at a greater distance:
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Gedor, of this city; see Gill on Jos 12:13.
(w) De loc. Heb. fol. 91. B. (x) De loc. Heb. fol. 89. G.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Ziph - Which gave its name to the neighbouring…
Ziph - Which gave its name to the neighbouring mountains, 1 Sam. xxvi, 1.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 55. Maon] In a desert to which this…
Verse 55. Maon] In a desert to which this town gave name, David took refuge for a considerable time from the persecution of Saul; and in this place Nabal the Carmelite had great possessions. See 1Sa 23:24-25; 1Sa 25:2.
Carmel] Not the celebrated mount of that name, but a village, the residence of Nabal. See 1Sa 25:2. It was near Maon, mentioned above, and was about ten miles eastward of Hebron. It is the place where Saul erected a trophy to himself after the defeat of the Amalekites; see 1Sa 15:12.
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Ziph] See Clarke on Jos 15:24.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Carmel. Not where Elias dwelt, but a city and…
Carmel. Not where Elias dwelt, but a city and mountain 10 miles east of Eleutheropolis. Nabal rendered it famous by his imprudence, (1 Kings xxv.) and Saul by a triumphal arch, 1 Kings xv. 12.
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 55. The third cluster of mountain cities lies east…
55. The third cluster of mountain cities lies east of the other two, toward the desert.
Maon, modern Main, nine miles south-southeast of Hebron, is conspicuously situated on a conical hill. The summit is crowned with ruins, foundations of hewn stone, a square enclosure, and several cisterns. The view is fine. Many towns of Judah are in sight.
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Carmel, now called Kurmul, is a few miles northwest of Maon. Robinson says that here he found more extensive ruins than he had yet anywhere seen, unless perhaps at Beth-el. The city was built in a semicircular amphitheatre shut in by rocks, in which there is an artificial reservoir one hundred and seventeen by seventy-four feet. The ruins consist chiefly of foundations and broken walls, scattered in every direction, and thrown together in mournful confusion and desolation.
Ziph, modern Zif, five miles southeast of Hebron, is in ruins. Twice did its treacherous people attempt to betray David, the youthful outlaw, into the hands of his persecutor, Saul. 1Sa_23:19; 1Sa_26:1.
Juttah is in the vicinity of Ziph, at the southwest, and is now called Yutta. Robinson describes it as having the appearance of a large Mohammedan town, on a low eminence, with trees around. He agrees with Reland that this is the city Juda, (Luk_1:39,) the residence of Zacharias and Elizabeth, and the birthplace of John the Baptist. The pronunciation is softened in the New Testament.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 55. Maon] Group III, consists of ten cities, on…
55. Maon] Group III, consists of ten cities, on the south-east of the two preceding groups, towards the desert:—
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Maon, Carmel, and Ziph. These, as Dean Stanley reminds…
Maon, Carmel, and Ziph. These, as Dean Stanley reminds us ("Sinai and Palestine," p. 101), still retain unaltered their old names. "That long line of hills was the beginning of the "hill country of Judaea," and when we began to ascend it the first answer to our inquiries after the route told us that it was "Carmel," on which Nabal fed his flocks, and close below its long ranges was the hill and ruins of Ziph," close above the hill of Maon, Wilson also ("Lands of the Bible," 1:380) makes the same remark. Maon is to be remembered as David"s hiding place from the enmity of Saul, (1Sa_23:24-26) and as the home of Nabal. (1Sa_25:2) Carmel (not the famous mountain of that name) meets us again in the history of Saul and of David. (1Sa_15:12 1Sa_25:2, 1Sa_25:5, 1Sa_25:7, 1Sa_25:40) The neighbourhood of Ziph was also one of David"s hiding places, and is described as a "wilderness" in which there was a "wood" in 1Sa_23:15, 19 26:1, 2. See also the prologue to Psalm 54. Another Ziph is mentioned in ver. 24.
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The writer lists cities of which Judah took possession. (See: How to Translate Names)
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