42And Shaalabbin, and Ajalon, and Jethlah,
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But the Amorites would dwell in mount Heres in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim: yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they became tributaries.
Aijalon with her suburbs, Gathrimmon with her suburbs; four cities.
Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
And they smote the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon: and the people were very faint.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 40-48)Dan, though commander of one of the four squadrons of the camp of Israel, in the wilderness, that which brought up the rear, yet was last provided for in Canaan, and his lot fell in the southern part of Canaan, between Judah on the east and the land of the Philistines on the west, Ephraim on the north and Simeon on the south. Providence ordered this numerous and powerful tribe into a post of dange…
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