John Gill Commentary Joshua 18:23

"and Avvim, and Parah, and Ophrah," — Joshua 18:23 (ASV)

And Avim, and Parah
Of the two first of these we read nowhere else;

and Ophrah
is not the same with Ophrah in (Judges 6:11) ; that belonged to the tribe of Manasseh, but rather that which was in the land of Shuah, (1 Samuel 13:17) . Jerom calls this place Aphrah, in the tribe of Benjamin, and says ^F15 , in his time there was a village called Effrem, five miles from Bethel to the east, which very probably is the same with this.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F15: De loc. Heb. fol. 88. H.