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19 She answered, “Give me a ablessing; since you have given me land in the South, give me also springs of water.” So he gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.  

The Cities of Judah

20 This was the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families:
21 The cities at the limits of the tribe of the children of Judah, toward the border of Edom in the South, were Kabzeel, aEder, Jagur,  
22 Kinah, Dimonah, Adadah,
23 Kedesh, Hazor, Ithnan,
24 aZiph, Telem, Bealoth,  
25 Hazor, Hadattah, Kerioth, Hezron (which is Hazor),
26 Amam, Shema, Moladah,
27 Hazar Gaddah, Heshmon, Beth Pelet,
28 Hazar Shual, aBeersheba, Bizjothjah,  
29 Baalah, Ijim, Ezem,
30 Eltolad, Chesil, aHormah,  
31 aZiklag, Madmannah, Sansannah,  
32 Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, and aRimmon: all the cities are twenty-nine, with their villages.  
33 In the lowland: aEshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah,  
34 Zanoah, En Gannim, Tappuah, Enam,
35 Jarmuth, aAdullam, Socoh, Azekah,  
36 Sharaim, Adithaim, Gederah, and Gederothaim: fourteen cities with their villages;
37 Zenan, Hadashah, Migdal Gad,
38 Dilean, Mizpah, aJoktheel,  
39 aLachish, Bozkath, bEglon,  
40 Cabbon, Lahmas, Kithlish,  
41 Gederoth, Beth Dagon, Naamah, and Makkedah: sixteen cities with their villages;
42 aLibnah, Ether, Ashan,  
43 Jiphtah, Ashnah, Nezib,
44 Keilah, Achzib, and Mareshah: nine cities with their villages;
45 Ekron, with its towns and villages;
46 from Ekron to the sea, all that lay near aAshdod, with their villages;  
47 Ashdod with its towns and villages, Gaza with its towns and villages—as far as athe Brook of Egypt and bthe Great Sea with its coastline.  
48 And in the mountain country: Shamir, Jattir, Sochoh,
49 Dannah, Kirjath Sannah (which is Debir),
50 Anab, Eshtemoh, Anim,
51 aGoshen, Holon, and Giloh: eleven cities with their villages;  
52 Arab, Dumah, Eshean,
53 Janum, Beth Tappuah, Aphekah,
54 Humtah, aKirjath Arba (which is Hebron), and Zior: nine cities with their villages;  
55 aMaon, Carmel, Ziph, Juttah,  
56 Jezreel, Jokdeam, Zanoah,
57 Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah: ten cities with their villages;
58 Halhul, Beth Zur, Gedor,
59 Maarath, Beth Anoth, and Eltekon: six cities with their villages;
60 aKirjath Baal (which is Kirjath Jearim) and Rabbah: two cities with their villages.  
61 In the wilderness: Beth Arabah, Middin, Secacah,
62 Nibshan, the City of Salt, and aEn Gedi: six cities with their villages.  
63 As for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, athe children of Judah could not drive them out; bbut the Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah at Jerusalem to this day. 
Commentaries:
Matthew Henry
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Joshua 15:1-63

The borders of the lot of Judah. (1-12) Caleb's portion, His daughter's blessing. (13-19) The cities of Judah. (20-63)

Verses 1-12 Joshua allotted to Judah, Ephraim, and the half of Manasseh, their inheritances before they left Gilgal. Afterwards removing to Shiloh, another survey was made, and the other tribes had their portion assigned. In due time all God's people are settled.

Verses 13-19 Achsah obtained some land by Caleb's free grant. He gave her a south land. Land indeed, but a south land, dry and apt to be parched. She obtained more, on her request, and he gave the upper and the nether springs. Those who understand it but of one field, watered both with the rain of heaven, and the springs that issued out of the earth, countenance the allusion commonly made to this, when we pray for spiritual and heavenly blessings which relate to our souls, as blessings of the upper springs, and those which relate to the body and the life that now is, as blessings of the nether springs. All the blessings, both of the upper and the nether springs, belong to the children of God. As related to Christ, they have them freely given of the Father, for the lot of their inheritance.

Verses 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, micah 5:2 , except that it was thus honoured, was now so little as not to be accounted one of the cities.


 
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