Joshua - 15:51



51 Goshen, Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages.

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Explanation and meaning of Joshua 15:51.

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Gosen and Olon and Gilo: eleven cities and their villages.
and Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh: eleven cities and their hamlets.
And Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven towns with their unwalled places.
Et Gosan, et Holon, et Giloh: urbes undecim, et villae earum.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

Goshen - See the note on Joshua 10:41.
Giloh - The country of the traitor Ahithophel, 2-Samuel 15:12.

And Goshen,.... Of Goshen in the land of Canaan; see Gill on Joshua 10:41,
and Holon, of which there is no other mention:
and Giloh was the city of Ahitophel, 2-Samuel 15:12,
eleven cities with their villages; the number agrees; this is the first division of cities in the mountains; a second follows.

Goshen, Holon, and Giloh, are still unknown. On Goshen, see at Joshua 10:41. Holon was given up to the priests (Joshua 21:15; 1-Chronicles 6:43); and Giloh is mentioned in 2-Samuel 15:12 as the birth-place of Ahithophel.

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