Keilah, Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages.
KJV
And Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages:
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And Keilah,.... The first of these is a well known city, which David saved from the hands of the Philistines,
Sa1 23:1
, &c. In Jerom's time it was a little village to the east of Eleutheropolis, about eight miles from it, as you go to Hebron; in which was shown the sepulchre of the Prophet Habakkuk (b).
And Achzib is said to be on the borders of Asher,
Jos 19:29
, and is supposed the same with Chezib,
Gen 38:5
; and the Ecdippa of Josephus and others, and now called Zib; See Gill on
Mic 1:14
,
and Mareshah; Jerom says (c), only the ruins of it were to be seen two miles from Eleutheropolis:
nine cities with their villages; which is just their number.
(b) De loc. Heb. fol. 90. A. (c) lbid. fol. 93. E.
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