Joshua 15:48

Jos 15:48. The mountains — That is, in the higher grounds, called mountains or hills, in comparison of the sea-coast.

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15:48 The hill country was in the central highlands of Judah from Jerusalem in the north to just past Debir (15:15) in the south. It was divided into five districts.

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Verse 48. Socoh] See a town of this name, Jos 15:35.

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(48-51) Nine of these eleven are identified.

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48–60. The Cities in the Mountains

48. And in the mountains] This section treats of the Cities in the Mountains or “the Hill Country,” (see above, Jos_15:20), and includes five groups.

Shamir] Group I. consists of eleven cities on the south-western portion of the “hill Country:”—

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And Goshen,.... Of Goshen in the land of Canaan; see Gill on Jos 10:41,

and Holon, of which there is no other mention:

and Giloh was the city of Ahitophel, Sa2 15:12,

eleven cities with their villages; the number agrees; this is the first division of cities in the mountains; a second follows.

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i.e. In the higher grounds, called mountains or hills, in comparison of the sea-coast.

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48. Mountains — The highlands of Judah were bounded by the lowlands on the west, the wilderness adjacent to the Dead Sea on the east, the Negeb on the south, and a line touching Jerusalem on the north. At Hebron the land is three thousand feet above the level of the sea. Many fruitful valleys, whose lower declivities are clothed with verdure, wind into the mountain from the lowlands between rugged chalk cliffs. The cities of this district are enumerated in five groups, or, if we accept the text of the Septuagint between Jos_15:59-60, we have six groups. Jattir Robinson identifies with the ruins of Attir, ten miles south of Hebron. Socoh must be distinguished from Socoh on the plain. See on Jos_15:35. Robinson recognized it in Shuweikeh, (the diminutive of Shaukeh,) a little northwest of Jattir.

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The mountains. Compare the expression, "the hill country of Judaea" (th oreinh , the same as here in the LXX), Luk_1:65. It extends northwards from near Debir to Jerusalem, attaining at Hebron a height of about 2, 700 feet. The physical characteristics of the country are vividly described in Deu_8:7, Deu_8:8. Dean Stanley ("Sinai and Palestine," p. 100) descants on the home-like character of the scenery and vegetation to an Englishman, and remarks on the contrast between the life, activity, and industry displayed there, as contrasted with the desolation of the greater part of Palestine. A later traveller, who would not, of course, be so struck with the resemblance to English scenery, speaks of the fertility of the ground as a matter of possibility, rather than of fact. The rocky soil, when broken up by the combined influences of heat, rain, and frost, is, like the soil of other rocky districts, extremely susceptible of cultivation when laid out in terraces. He remarks how the signs of ancient cultivation in this manner are to be seen on all sides, and laments the misrule which has converted the "land flowing with milk and honey" into a wilderness. (see Bartlett, "Egypt and Palestine," Jos 19, and note on Jos_10:40) The time has not yet come for the Jews, now asserting their ancient greatness in statesmanship, literature, and art in every country in the civilised world, to return to their own land. Not till then, it is to be feared, will the prophecy in Isa 35 be fulfilled, and "the desert rejoice, and the wilderness blossom as the rose, while waters break out in the wilderness and streams in the desert, the parched ground becoming a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water."

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The mountains - That is, in the higher grounds called mountains or hills, in comparison of the sea-coast.

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Connecting Statement:

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

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Goshen

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