And in the mountains, Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh,
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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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