41 And Gederoth, Bethdagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages:
41 Gederoth, Beth Dagon, Naamah and Makkedah-sixteen towns and their villages.
41 Gederoth, Beth-dagon, Naamah, and Makkedah: sixteen cities with their villages.
41 Gederoth, Beth Dagon, Naamah, and Makkedah - sixteen towns and their villages.
41 Gederoth, Beth Dagon, Naamah, and Makkedah: sixteen cities with their villages;
41 Gederoth, Beth-dagon, Naamah, and Makkedah-sixteen towns with their surrounding villages.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Joshua 15:41
Commentary on Joshua 15:20-63
(Read Joshua 15:20-63)
Here is a list of the cities of Judah. But we do not here find Bethlehem, afterwards the city of David, and ennobled by the birth of our Lord Jesus in it. That city, which, at the best, was but little among the thousands of Judah, Micah 5:2, except that it was thus honoured, was now so little as not to be accounted one of the cities.