Joshua 15:42
Libnah, and Ether, and Ashan,
Libnah,.... Here begins another division or list of the cities of Judah, in the valley or plain. Libnah is the same with Libnah, a royal city; see Joshua 10:29;
and Ether was given to the tribe of Simeon, Joshua 19:7; and under Ether of the lot of Simeon, Jerom writes {y}, there is now a very large village called Jethira, in interior Daroma, near Malatha, twenty miles from Eleutheropolis;
and Ashan also was given to the tribe of Simeon, Joshua 19:7; and the above writer relates {z}, that there was in his times a village called Bethasan, belonging to Aelia, or Jerusalem, fifteen miles from it.
{y} De loc. Heb. fol. 91. C. & 92. I.
{z} De loc. Heb. fol. 88. G.
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