SEV Biblia, Chapter 15:55
Maón, Carmel, y Zif, y Juta,
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Joshua 15:55
Verse 55. Maon] In a desert to which this town gave name, David took refuge for a considerable time from the persecution of Saul; and in this place Nabal the Carmelite had great possessions. See 1 Sam. xxiii. 24, 25; xxv. 2. Carmel] Not the celebrated mount of that name, but a village, the residence of Nabal. See 1 Sam. xxv. 2. It was near Maon, mentioned above, and was about ten miles eastward of Hebron. It is the place where Saul erected a trophy to himself after the defeat of the Amalekites; see 1 Sam. xv. 12.
Ziph] See on ver. 24.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 55. Maon, Carmel , etc.] Maon was the dwelling place of Nabal the Carmelite, whose possessions were in Carmel, and were not far from one another, ( 1 Samuel 25:2). It gave name to a wilderness near where David hid himself from Saul, ( 1 Samuel 23:25); Jerom places it to the east of Daroma, who also informs us, that there was in his time a village that went by the name of Carmelia, ten miles from Hebron towards the east, and where was a Roman garrison. and Ziph , according to the same writer f370 , was eight miles from Hebron to the east; and there was a village shown in his time where David was hid; this gave name to a wilderness also, ( 1 Samuel 23:14); and Juttah , which Jerom calls Jeshan, was in his time a large village of the Jews, eighteen miles from Eleutheropolis, to the southern part in Daroma. Reland conjectures that this was the native place of John the Baptist; and that, instead of “a city of Judah”, it should be read “the city Juta”, ( Luke 1:39).
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
מעון 4584 כרמל 3760 וזיף 2128 ויוטה׃ 3194
