Joshua 15:45

15:45-47 The fourth district of the western foothills included most of the territory soon to be occupied by the Philistines—the tribe of Judah held it only briefly.

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Hebrew, daughters.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.

(45) Ekron was afterwards given to Dan (Jos_19:43).

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

45. Ekron. Group IV. includes the Philistine line of coast, and includes three chief cities:—

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And in the mountains,.... The hill country of Judea, as it is called Luk 1:39, in which were the following cities:

Shamir: the Alexandrian copy of the Greek version reads Sophir as the name, of the first of these cities; and Jerom says (d) there was a village of this name in the mountainous parts, situated between Eleutheropolis, and Ashkelon in the tribe of Judah; see Mic 1:11,

and Jattir the same writer calls Jether, in the tribe of Judah; and says (e) there was in his time a very large village called Jethira, twenty miles from Eleutheropolis, the inhabitants of which were then all Christians: it was situated in interior Daroma, near Malatha:

and Socoh is different from Socoh in Jos 15:35; that was in the plain, this in the mountain; See Gill on Jos 15:35.

(d) De loc. Heb. fol. 94. I. (e) Ibid. fol. 92. l.

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Here and in the following verses are contained all the cities of the Philistines, among which are Gath and Askelon, which peradventure are here omitted, because they were not at this time places of such power and eminency as afterwards they were, but were the daughters of some of these following cities, though afterwards the daughter might overtop the mother, as is usual.

Her towns, Heb. her daughters, i.e. lesser cities, or great towns, subject to Ekton’s jurisdiction.

Her villages, i.e. lesser towns or hamlets.

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45. The fourth group lay on the Philistine coast, and were then in the possession of the Philistines.

Ekron — See chap. 13, note.

Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Ekron, with her towns and her villages. Literally, her daughters and her farm hamlets. (see note on Jos_13:28) These cities of the Philistines had, like Gibeon, daughter cities dependent on them, and must therefore have been, like Gibeon, "great cities as the royal cities". (Jos_10:2) They do not appear to have come under regal government till later times. (cf. 1Sa_5:8, 1Sa_5:11, with 1Sa_27:2) "Around it (Gezer) and along the sides were distributed a series of small isolated centres of agglomeration... This disposition to scatter itself, of which Gezer surely does not offer us the only specimen, explains in a striking manner the Biblical phrase, "the city and her daughters (Pal. Expl. Fund, Quart. Paper, Jan., 1874). This explanation, however, is doubtful. (see Jos_9:17) According to Knobel, this passage cannot have been written by the Elohist, because he confines himself to the description of the cities the Israelites actually possessed. Why a lair writer, writing presumably when Israel"s fortunes were at a lower ebb, should have added a description of the territory Israel did not possess, he does not explain.

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Connecting Statement:

The writer lists cities of which Judah took possession. (See: How to Translate Names)

settlements

villages

brook of Egypt

a small river of water at the southwestern edge of the land near Egypt (See: How to Translate Names)

translationWords

Ekron

the sea

Ashdod

Gaza

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