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nine cities with their villages:</div><div id="jump">Jump to: <a href="/commentaries/barnes/joshua/15.htm" title="Barnes' Notes">Barnes</a> • <a href="/commentaries/benson/joshua/15.htm" title="Benson Commentary">Benson</a> • <a href="/commentaries/illustrator/joshua/15.htm" title="Biblical Illustrator">BI</a> • <a href="/commentaries/calvin/joshua/15.htm" title="Calvin's Commentaries">Calvin</a> • <a href="/commentaries/cambridge/joshua/15.htm" title="Cambridge Bible">Cambridge</a> • <a href="/commentaries/clarke/joshua/15.htm" title="Clarke's Commentary">Clarke</a> • <a href="/commentaries/darby/joshua/15.htm" title="Darby's Bible Synopsis">Darby</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ellicott/joshua/15.htm" title="Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers">Ellicott</a> • <a href="/commentaries/expositors/joshua/15.htm" title="Expositor's Bible">Expositor's</a> • <a href="/commentaries/edt/joshua/15.htm" title="Expositor's Dictionary">Exp Dct</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gaebelein/joshua/15.htm" title="Gaebelein's Annotated Bible">Gaebelein</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gsb/joshua/15.htm" title="Geneva Study Bible">GSB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gill/joshua/15.htm" title="Gill's Bible Exposition">Gill</a> • <a href="/commentaries/gray/joshua/15.htm" title="Gray's Concise">Gray</a> • <a href="/commentaries/guzik/joshua/15.htm" title="Guzik Bible Commentary">Guzik</a> • <a href="/commentaries/haydock/joshua/15.htm" title="Haydock Catholic Bible Commentary">Haydock</a> • <a href="/commentaries/hastings/joshua/5-12.htm" title="Hastings Great Texts">Hastings</a> • <a href="/commentaries/homiletics/joshua/15.htm" title="Pulpit Homiletics">Homiletics</a> • <a href="/commentaries/jfb/joshua/15.htm" title="Jamieson-Fausset-Brown">JFB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/kad/joshua/15.htm" title="Keil and Delitzsch OT">KD</a> • <a href="/commentaries/king-en/joshua/15.htm" title="Kingcomments Bible Studies">King</a> • <a href="/commentaries/lange/joshua/15.htm" title="Lange Commentary">Lange</a> • <a href="/commentaries/maclaren/joshua/15.htm" title="MacLaren Expositions">MacLaren</a> • <a href="/commentaries/mhc/joshua/15.htm" title="Matthew Henry Concise">MHC</a> • <a href="/commentaries/mhcw/joshua/15.htm" title="Matthew Henry Full">MHCW</a> • <a href="/commentaries/parker/joshua/15.htm" title="The People's Bible by Joseph Parker">Parker</a> • <a href="/commentaries/poole/joshua/15.htm" title="Matthew Poole">Poole</a> • <a href="/commentaries/pulpit/joshua/15.htm" title="Pulpit Commentary">Pulpit</a> • <a href="/commentaries/sermon/joshua/15.htm" title="Sermon Bible">Sermon</a> • <a href="/commentaries/sco/joshua/15.htm" title="Scofield Reference Notes">SCO</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ttb/joshua/15.htm" title="Through The Bible">TTB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/wes/joshua/15.htm" title="Wesley's Notes">WES</a> • <a href="#tsk" title="Treasury of Scripture Knowledge">TSK</a></div><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="comtype">EXPOSITORY (ENGLISH BIBLE)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/joshua/15.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(54) Of this total of nine, six have been found.<p><a name="mhc" id="mhc"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/mhc/joshua/15.htm">Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary</a></div>15:20-63 Here is a list of the cities of Judah. But we do not here find Bethlehem, afterwards the city of David, and ennobled by the birth of our Lord Jesus in it. That city, which, at the best, was but little among the thousands of Judah, Mic 5:2, except that it was thus honoured, was now so little as not to be accounted one of the cities.<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/joshua/15.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>Second group of nine towns, situated somewhat to the north of the last mentioned. Of these Dumah is perhaps the ruined village "Ed Daumeh," in the neighborhood of Hebron; and Beth-tappuah, i. e. "house of apples," "Teffuh," a place which has still a good number of inhabitants, is conspicuous for its olive groves and vineyards, and bears on every side the traces of industry and thrift.<a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/joshua/15.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>Jos 15:21-63. Cities of Judah.<p>21-63. the uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of Judah—There is given a list of cities within the tribal territory of Judah, arranged in four divisions, corresponding to the districts of which it consisted—the cities in the southern part (Jos 15:21-32), those in the lowlands (Jos 15:33-47), those in the highlands (Jos 15:48-60), and those in the desert (Jos 15:61, 62). One gets the best idea of the relative situation of these cities by looking at the map. <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/poole/joshua/15.htm">Matthew Poole's Commentary</a></div> No text from Poole on this verse. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/joshua/15.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>And Humtah,.... Of Humtah we nowhere else read: <p>and Kirjatharba, which is Hebron; of Kirjatharba we read frequently; See Gill on <a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/14-15.htm">Joshua 14:15</a>, <p>and Zior; Jerom says (o), that in his time there was a village shown by the name of Sihor, between Aelia (or Jerusalem) and Eleutheropolis, in the tribe of Judah: <p>nine cities with their villages; which is exactly their number, as expressed; here ends the second division, or of the cities in the hill country of Judea; a third follows. <p>(o) De loc. Heb. fol. 94. H. <a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/joshua/15.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2">And Humtah, and Kirjatharba, which is Hebron, and Zior; nine cities with their villages:</span></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div>Joshua 15:54<a name="kad" id="kad"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/kad/joshua/15.htm">Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament</a></div>Humtah is also unknown. Kirjath-arba, or Hebron: see at <a href="/joshua/10-3.htm">Joshua 10:3</a>. 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