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Of the Wars: Caput X

Question IV. Which are Jarmuth, Lachish, Eglon?

These three cities were afterward in the tribe of Judah, as will be clear below (chapter 15). But Ierimoth (or Iarmuth) was twofold: one in the tribe of Issachar, concerning which [see] chapter 21; and the other [is] this one — which the little book On Hebrew Places says is distant from Eleutheropolis now at the fourth milestone, now at the tenth (unless it means that there are two of the same name, which [would be] a fabrication). But where Eleutheropolis was, was known in that author’s time, [but is] now most unknown; nor [is there] hardly any mention of it, except in the Itineraries of Antoninus. Very…

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…[Jarmuth] lay toward the south from Jerusalem. Lachish was from the same [city] toward the west; of which there existed, in Eusebius’s time, a village [at the] 7th mile from Eleutheropolis. Eglon also lay from Jerusalem toward the south, but less so than Jerimuth.

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Nicolaus Serarius, S.J., “Question IV. Which are Jarmuth, Lachish, Eglon?,” in Commentary on Joshua, Volume II, English translation, Mind of the Church, https://mindofthechurch.com/works/serarius-joshua-2/175-question-iv-which-are-jarmuth-lachish-eglon/.

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