OLD TESTAMENT

Joshua 13:2

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“This is the land that still remains: all the regions of the Philistines, and all the Geshurites;

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Verse 2. Galilee. As Josue had been making such conquests in that part lately, some would translate Geliloth, “the confines” of the Philistines, in which sense it seems to be taken. Calmet. 18:18, and 22:10. Calmet.—Bonfrere suspects that S. Jerom wrote Galila.—Gessuri, either near Mount Hermon, ( Menochius.) or bordering upon Arabia. 1 Kennicott. 15 and 27:10.

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