Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem: twelve cities with their villages.
KJV
And Kattath, and Nahallal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Bethlehem: twelve cities with their villages.
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And Kattath, and Nahallal,.... Of the two first of these we read nowhere else, but in
Jos 21:34
,
and Shimron was a royal city, the king of which Joshua took and hanged,
Jos 11:1
,
and Idalah is a place Bochart conjectures (t) where the goddess Venus was worshipped, Idalia being one of her names:
and Bethlehem is a different place from that which was the birthplace of our Lord, called Bethlehem of Judah, to distinguish it from this:
twelve cities with their villages; more are named, but some of them belonged to other tribes, and only lay on the borders of this; and others might not be properly cities, but small towns.
(t) Canaan, l. 1. c. 3. col. 356.
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