John Gill Commentary Joshua 15:42

"Libnah, and Ether, and Ashan," — Joshua 15:42 (ASV)

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) (12:15) ;

and Ether
was given to the tribe of Simeon, (Joshua 19:7) ; and under Ether of the lot of Simeon, Jerom writes ^F25 , 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 ^F26 , that there was in his times a village called Bethasan, belonging to Aelia, or Jerusalem, fifteen miles from it.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F25: De loc. Heb. fol. 91. C. & 92. I.
• F26: De loc. Heb. fol. 88. G.