Joshua Chapter 15 verse 48 Holy Bible
And in the hill-country, Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh,
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And in the hill-country, Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh;
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-- And in the hill-country: Shamir, and Jattir, and Sochoh,
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And in the mountains, Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh,
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And in the mountains, Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh,
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In the hill-country, Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh,
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And in the hill-country: Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 48. - The mountains. Compare the expression, "the hill country of Judaea" (τῇ ὀρεινῇ, the same as here in the LXX.), Luke 1:65. It extends northwards from near Debir to Jerusalem, attaining at Hebron a height of about 2,700 feet. The physical characteristics of the country are vividly described in Deuteronomy 8:7, 8. Dean Stanley ('Sinai and Palestine,' p. 100) descants on the home-like character of the scenery and vegetation to an Englishman, and remarks on the contrast between the life, activity, and industry displayed there, as contrasted with the desolation of the greater part of Palestine. A later traveller, who would not, of course, be so struck with the resemblance to English scenery, speaks of the fertility of the ground as a matter of possibility, rather than of fact. The rocky soil, when broken up by the combined influences of heat, rain, and frost, is, like the soil of other rocky districts, extremely susceptible of cultivation when laid out in terraces. He remarks how the signs of ancient cultivation in this manner are to be seen on all sides, and laments the misrule which has converted the "land flowing with milk and honey" into a wilderness (see Bartlett, 'Egypt and Palestine,' ch. 19, and note on Joshua 10:40). The time has not yet come for the Jews, now asserting their ancient greatness in statesmanship, literature, and art in every country in the civilised world, to return to their own land. Not till then, it is to be feared, will the prophecy in Isaiah 35. be fulfilled, and "the desert rejoice, and the wilderness blossom as the rose, while waters break out in the wilderness and streams in the desert, the parched ground becoming a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water."
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(48-51) Nine of these eleven are identified.
