SEV Biblia, Chapter 15:32
y Lebaot, Silhim, y Aín, y Rimón; en todas veintinueve ciudades con sus aldeas.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Joshua 15:32
Verse 32. All the cities are twenty and nine, with their villages] But on a careful examination we shall find thirty- eight; but it is supposed that nine of these are excepted; viz., Beersheba, Moladah, Hazarshual, Baalah, Azem, Hormah, Ziklag, Ain, and Rimmon, which were afterwards given to the tribe of Simeon. This may appear satisfactory, but perhaps the truth will be found to be this: Several cities in the promised land are expressed by compound terms; not knowing the places, different translations combine what should be separated, and in many cases separate what should be combined. Through this we have cities formed out of epithets. On this ground we have thirty-eight cities as the sum here, instead of twenty-nine.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 32. And Lebaoth , etc.] Whether Lebaoth is the same with Bethlebaoth, given to the tribe of Simeon, ( Joshua 19:6); is not certain; and Shilhim is nowhere else spoken of; and Ain seems to be the same with that in ( Numbers 34:11); also (see Gill on “ Numbers 34:11”) and Rimmon , the place Jerom calls Eremmon, which he says was a large village of the Jews, sixteen miles from Eleutheropolis to the south, in Daroma; this and the preceding are joined together as one, and called Enrimmon, ( Nehemiah 11:29). It is probable they were near to each other, and in process of time the buildings of each might increase, so as to meet and join each other: all the cities [are] twenty and nine, with their villages ; but according to our version, and as we point them, they are thirty eight; some make them thirty six, others thirty seven; the Jews generally make thirty eight of them, as we do, and account for the difference of number thus; that nine of these cities were given to the tribe of Simeon, ( Joshua 19:1-9); and these being taken out of the thirty eight, there remain twenty nine; so Jarchi and Kimchi account for it; but as the number of the cities is uncertain, and this account is given before the separation of the nine, and they are all reckoned together, this does not seem to be satisfactory; rather, as Abarbinel observes, the twenty nine of the places enumerated were cities, and the other were villages, unwalled towns, or not of so much note as the twenty nine.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 20-63 - Here is a list of the cities of Judah. But we do not here fin 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 littl among the thousands of Judah, Mic 5:2, except that it was thu honoured, was now so little as not to be accounted one of the cities __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ולבאות 3822 ושׁלחים 7978 ועין 5871 ורמון 7417 כל 3605 ערים 5892 עשׂרים 6242 ותשׁע 8672 וחצריהן׃ 2691
