20 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Judah according to their families. 21 The cities belonging to the tribe of the people of Judah in the extreme South, toward the boundary of Edom, were Kabzeel, Eder, Jagur, 22 Kinah, Dimo'nah, Ada'dah, 23 Kedesh, Hazor, Ithnan, 24 Ziph, Telem, Be-a'loth, 25 Ha'zor-hadat'tah, Ker'i-oth-hezron (that is, Hazor), 26 Amam, Shema, Mola'dah, 27 Ha'zar-gad'dah, Heshmon, Beth-pel'et, 28 Hazar-shu'al, Beer-sheba, Biziothi'ah, 29 Ba'alah, I'im, Ezem, 30 Elto'lad, Chesil, Hormah, 31 Ziklag, Madman'nah, Sansan'nah, 32 Leba'oth, Shilhim, A'in, and Rimmon: in all, twenty-nine cities, with their villages. 33 And in the lowland, Eshta'ol, Zorah, Ashnah, 34 Zano'ah, En-gan'nim, Tap'puah, Enam, 35 Jarmuth, Adullam, Socoh, Aze'kah, 36 Shaara'im, Aditha'im, Gede'rah, Gederotha'im: fourteen cities with their villages. 37 Zenan, Hadash'ah, Mig'dal-gad, 38 Di'lean, Mizpeh, Jok'theel, 39 Lachish, Bozkath, Eglon, 40 Cabbon, Lahmam, Chitlish, 41 Gede'roth, Beth-da'gon, Na'amah, and Makke'dah: sixteen cities with their villages. 42 Libnah, Ether, Ashan, 43 Iphtah, Ashnah, Nezib, 44 Kei'lah, Achzib, and Mare'shah: nine cities with their villages. 45 Ekron, with its towns and its villages; 46 from Ekron to the sea, all that were by the side of Ashdod, with their villages. 47 Ashdod, its towns and its villages; Gaza, its towns and its villages; to the Brook of Egypt, and the Great Sea with its coast-line. 48 And in the hill country, Shamir, Jattir, Socoh, 49 Dannah, Kir'iath-san'nah (that is, Debir), 50 Anab, Esh'temoh, Anim, 51 Goshen, Holon, and Giloh: eleven cities with their villages. 52 Arab, Dumah, Eshan, 53 Janim, Beth-tap'puah, Aphe'kah, 54 Humtah, Kir'iath-ar'ba (that is, Hebron), and Zi'or: nine cities with their villages. 55 Ma'on, Carmel, Ziph, Juttah, 56 Jezreel, Jok'de-am, Zano'ah, 57 Kain, Gib'e-ah, and Timnah: ten cities with their villages. 58 Halhul, Beth-zur, Gedor, 59 Ma'arath, Beth-anoth, and El'tekon: six cities with their villages. 60 Kir'iath-ba'al (that is, Kir'iath-je'arim), and Rabbah: two cities with their villages. 61 In the wilderness, Beth-arabah, Middin, Seca'cah, 62 Nibshan, the City of Salt, and En-ge'di: six cities with their villages. 63 But the Jeb'usites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the people of Judah could not drive out; so the Jeb'usites dwell with the people of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Joshua 15:20-63
Commentary on Joshua 15:20-63
(Read Joshua 15:20-63)
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.