10And Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which are in Judah and in Benjamin fenced cities.
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Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite unto this day, because that he wholly followed the LORD God of Israel.
And the coast of their inheritance was Zorah, and Eshtaol, and Irshemesh, …
And the time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.
And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were.(Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
And Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-12)How the ten tribes deserted the house of David we read in the foregoing chapter. They had formerly sat loose to that family ( 2 Sam. 20:1 , 2 ), and now they quite threw it off, not considering how much it would weaken the common interest and take Israel down from that pitch of glory at which it had arrived in the last reign. But thus the kingdom must be corrected as well as the house of David. 1.…
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