33 And in the lowland, Eshta'ol, Zorah, Ashnah, 34 Zano'ah, En-gan'nim, Tap'puah, Enam, 35 Jarmuth, Adullam, Socoh, Aze'kah, 36 Shaara'im, Aditha'im, Gede'rah, Gederotha'im: fourteen cities with their villages. 37 Zenan, Hadash'ah, Mig'dal-gad, 38 Di'lean, Mizpeh, Jok'theel, 39 Lachish, Bozkath, Eglon, 40 Cabbon, Lahmam, Chitlish, 41 Gede'roth, Beth-da'gon, Na'amah, and Makke'dah: sixteen cities with their villages. 42 Libnah, Ether, Ashan, 43 Iphtah, Ashnah, Nezib, 44 Kei'lah, Achzib, and Mare'shah: nine cities with their villages. 45 Ekron, with its towns and its villages; 46 from Ekron to the sea, all that were by the side of Ashdod, with their villages. 47 Ashdod, its towns and its villages; Gaza, its towns and its villages; to the Brook of Egypt, and the Great Sea with its coast-line.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Joshua 15:33-47
Commentary on Joshua 15:20-63
(Read Joshua 15:20-63)
Here is a list of the cities of Judah. But we do not here find 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 little among the thousands of Judah, Micah 5:2, except that it was thus honoured, was now so little as not to be accounted one of the cities.