44 Keilah, Akzib and Mareshah-nine towns and their villages.
44 And Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages:
44 Keilah, Achzib, and Mareshah: nine cities with their villages.
44 Keilah, Aczib, and Mareshah - nine towns and their villages.
44 Keilah, Achzib, and Mareshah: nine cities with their villages;
44 Keilah, Aczib, and Mareshah-nine towns with their surrounding villages.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Joshua 15:44
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.