Joshua 15:41
And Gederoth, Bethdagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages:
And Gederoth,.... Gederoth is reckoned among the cities of the low country, and south of Judah, 2 Chronicles 28:18;
and Bethdagon; in it very probably was a temple of Dagon, which was a principal deity of the Philistines, 1 Samuel 5:2; Jerom says {x} in his time was shown a large village called Capherdagon, between Diospolis and Jamnia; of Naamah, the same writer says nothing, only that it was a city of the tribe of Judah;
and Makkedah; see Joshua 10:10; it was a royal city, Joshua 12:16;
sixteen cities with their villages; and is the exact number of them, as before enumerated.
{x} De loc. Heb. fol. 89. F.
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