John Gill Commentary Joshua 15:48

"And in the hill-country, Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh," — Joshua 15:48 (ASV)

And in the mountains
The hill country of Judea, as it is called (Luke 1:39Luke 1:65) , in which were the following cities:

Shamir :
the Alexandrian copy of the Greek version reads Sophir as the name, of the first of these cities; and Jerom says ^F4 there was a village of this name in the mountainous parts, situated between Eleutheropolis, and Ashkelon in the tribe of Judah; see (Micah 1:11) ;

and Jattir
the same writer calls Jether, in the tribe of Judah; and says ^F5 there was in his time a very large village called Jethira, twenty miles from Eleutheropolis, the inhabitants of which were then all Christians: it was situated in interior Daroma, near Malatha;

and Socoh
is different from Socoh in (Joshua 15:35) ; that was in the plain, this in the mountain; (See Gill on Joshua 15:35).

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FOOTNOTES:

• F4: De loc. Heb. fol. 94. I.
• F5: Ibid. fol. 92. l.