Joshua 15:47
Azotus with its towns and villages. Gaza with its towns and villages, even to the torrent of Egypt, and the great sea that is the border thereof.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
46From Accaron even to the sea: all places that lie towards Azotus and the villages thereof.
48And in the mountain Samir and Jether and Socoth,
Cross References
Exodus 23:31And I will set thy bounds from the Red Sea to the sea of the Palestines, and from the desert to the river: I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hands, and will drive them out from before you.
Deuteronomy 2:23The Hevites also, that dwelt in Haserim as far as Gaza, were expelled by the Cappadocians: who came out of Cappadocia, and destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.
Joshua 13:3From the troubled river, that watereth Egypt, unto the borders of Accaron northward: the land of Chanaan, which is divided among the lords of the Philistines, the Gazites, the Azotians, the Ascalonites, the Gethites, and the Accronites.
Judges 16:1He went also into Gaza, and saw there a woman a harlot, and went in unto her.
2 Kings 18:8He smote the Philistines as far as Gaza, and all their borders, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
Jeremiah 47:1The word of the Lord that came to Jeremias the prophet against the people of Palestine, before Pharao took Gaza.
Matthew Henry on Joshua 15:21-63
The Lot of Judah. ( b. c. 1444.) 20 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families. 21 And the uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of Judah toward the coast of Edom southward 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, and Hezron, which is Hazor, 26 Amam, and Shema, and Moladah, 27 And Hazar-gaddah, and Heshmon, and… Read the whole commentary →