Libnah,.... Here begins another division or list of the cities of Judah, in the valley or plain. Libnah is the same with Libnah, a royal city; see Jos 10:29 ,
and Ether was given to the tribe of Simeon, Jos 19:7 ; and under Ether of the lot of Simeon, Jerom writes (y), there is now a very large village called Jethira, in interior Daroma, near Malatha, twenty miles from Eleutheropolis: and Ashan also was given to the tribe of Simeon, Jos 19:7 ; and the above writer relates (z), that there was in his times a village called Bethasan, belonging to Aelia, or Jerusalem, fifteen miles from it. (y) De loc. Heb. fol. 91. C. & 92. I. (z) De loc. Heb. fol. 88. G.
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Gill's Exposition
Libnah,.... Here begins another division or list of the cities of Judah, in the valley or plain. Libnah is the same with Libnah, a royal city; see Jos 10:29 ,
and Ether was given to the tribe of Simeon, Jos 19:7 ; and under Ether of the lot of Simeon, Jerom writes (y), there is now a very large village called Jethira, in interior Daroma, near Malatha, twenty miles from Eleutheropolis: and Ashan also was given to the tribe of Simeon, Jos 19:7 ; and the above writer relates (z), that there was in his times a village called Bethasan, belonging to Aelia, or Jerusalem, fifteen miles from it. (y) De loc. Heb. fol. 91. C. & 92. I. (z) De loc. Heb. fol. 88. G.