Clarke's Bible Commentary - Joshua 15:35
Verse 35. Jarmuth] See the note on chap. x. 3. Adullam] See the note on chap. xii. 15.
Socoh] It was near this place that David fought with and slew Goliath, the champion of the Philistines, 1 Sam. xvii. 1.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 35. Jarmuth, and Adullam , etc.] The two first of these were royal cities, of which (see Joshua 10:3 12:15); Socoh ; Jerom says there were two little villages in his day of the name of Socho, as you go to Aelia (or Jerusalem), from Eleutheropolis, in the ninth mile on the public way, one in the mountain, and the other in the plain, (the same with this,) both of which were called Socoth: of this place was Antigonus, president of the sanhedrim, and successor of Simeon the just, called in the Misnah a man of Socho; and Azekah ; (see Gill on “ Joshua 10:10”); it appears to be near to Socoh from ( 1 Samuel 17:1), where the Philistines are said to pitch their camp between them.
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
ירמות 3412 ועדלם 5725 שׂוכה 7755 ועזקה׃ 5825
