38And Dilean, and Mizpeh, and Joktheel,
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He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand, and took Selah by war, and called the name of it Joktheel unto this day.
And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed; …
Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was gathered together as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, unto the LORD in Mizpeh.
And the children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel that came not up with the congregation unto the LORD? For they had made a great oath concerning him that came not up to the LORD to Mizpeh, saying, He shall surely be put to death.
And Samuel called the people together unto the LORD to Mizpeh;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 20-63)We have here a list of the several cities that fell within the lot of the tribe of Judah, which are mentioned by name, that they might know their own, and both keep it and keep to it, and might neither through cowardice nor sloth lose the possession of what was their own. I. The cities are here named, and numbered in several classes, which they then could account for the reason of better than we c…
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