20 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Judah according to their families . 21 Now the cities at the extremity of the tribe of the sons of Judah toward the border of Edom in the south were Kabzeel and Eder and Jagur , 22 and Kinah and Dimonah and Adadah , 23 and Kedesh and Hazor and Ithnan , 24 Ziph and Telem and Bealoth , 25 and Hazor-hadattah and Kerioth-hezron e (that is, Hazor ), 26 Amam and Shema and Moladah , 27 and Hazar-gaddah and Heshmon and Beth-pelet , 28 and Hazar-shual and Beersheba and Biziothiah , 29 Baalah and Iim and Ezem , 30 and Eltolad and Chesil and Hormah , 31 and Ziklag and Madmannah and Sansannah , 32 and Lebaoth and Shilhim and Ain and Rimmon ; in all , twenty-nine e cities with their villages . 33 In the lowland : Eshtaol and Zorah and Ashnah , 34 and Zanoah and En-gannim , Tappuah and Enam , 35 Jarmuth and Adullam , Socoh and Azekah , 36 and Shaaraim and Adithaim and Gederah and Gederothaim ; fourteen e cities with their villages . 37 Zenan and Hadashah and Migdal-gad , 38 and Dilean and Mizpeh and Joktheel , 39 Lachish and Bozkath and Eglon , 40 and Cabbon and Lahmas and Chitlish , 41 and Gederoth , Beth-dagon and Naamah and Makkedah ; sixteen e cities with their villages . 42 Libnah and Ether and Ashan , 43 and Iphtah and Ashnah and Nezib , 44 and Keilah and Achzib and Mareshah ; nine cities with their villages . 45 Ekron , with its towns and its villages ; 46 from Ekron even to the sea , all that were by the side of Ashdod , with their villages . 47 Ashdod , its towns and its villages ; Gaza , its towns and its villages ; as far as the brook of Egypt and the Great Sea , even its coastline . 48 In the hill country : Shamir and Jattir and Socoh , 49 and Dannah and Kiriath-sannah (that is, Debir ), 50 and Anab and Eshtemoh and Anim , 51 and Goshen and Holon and Giloh ; eleven e cities with their villages . 52 Arab and Dumah and Eshan , 53 and Janum and Beth-tappuah and Aphekah , 54 and Humtah and Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron ), and Zior ; nine cities with their villages . 55 Maon , Carmel and Ziph and Juttah , 56 and Jezreel and Jokdeam and Zanoah , 57 Kain , Gibeah and Timnah ; ten cities with their villages . 58 Halhul , Beth-zur and Gedor , 59 and Maarath and Beth-anoth and Eltekon ; six cities with their villages . 60 Kiriath-baal (that is, Kiriath-jearim ), and Rabbah ; two cities with their villages . 61 In the wilderness : Beth-arabah , Middin and Secacah , 62 and Nibshan and the City of Salt and Engedi ; six cities with their villages . 63 Now as for the Jebusites , the inhabitants of Jerusalem , the sons of Judah could not drive them out; so the Jebusites live with the sons of Judah at Jerusalem until this day .
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Joshua 15:20-63
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.