KIRJATH-SEPHER, that is to say the City of Letters, or Books1, otherwise called Debir, a City in the Tribe of Judah, one of those which fell by Lot to this Tribe, and were afterwards given to Caleb. It was taken by Othniel, to whom Caleb for his Reward gave his Daughter Achsah in Marriage.
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Translators’ note. This City was so called long before Moses appeared in the World; which proves that there were Books before this Legislator, and that he is not the oldest Writer that ever was, as the Fathers have asserted. It is possible the Canaanites might have lodged their Records here, and those few Monuments of Antiquity which they had remaining. ↩