44And Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages:
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Then they told David, saying, Behold, the Philistines fight against Keilah, and they rob the threshingfloors. …
And she yet again conceived, and bare a son; and called his name Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bare him.
Therefore shalt thou give presents to Moreshethgath: the houses of Achzib shall be a lie to the kings of Israel. …
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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