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Joshua 12:23

Joshua 12:23

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

The king of Dor, in the coast of Dor, one,.... Of which see Jos 11:2; it fell to the lot of Manasseh, but never was possessed by them, as were not Taanach and Megiddo, before mentioned, Jos 17:11 ;the king of the nations of Gilgal, one; not the place where Joshua encamped after he had passed Jordan, for that was then no city; the Septuagint version renders it the land of Galilee; and Dr.

Lightfoot is of opinion that Galilee is meant, and in the Apocrypha:"Who went forth by the way that leadeth to Galgala, and pitched their tents before Masaloth, which is in Arbela, and after they had won it, they slew much people.'

' (1 Maccabees 9:2)Galgala is spoken of as near to Arbel, a city in Galilee: Jerom takes this to be the same with Glagulis, which in his time was a village six miles from Antipatris to the north. Chorograph.

Cent. c. 88. De loc. Heb. fol. 92.

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