Luke Chapter 1 verse 39 Holy Bible
And Mary arose in these days and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Judah;
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Then Mary got up and went quickly into the high lands, to a town of Judah;
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And Mary, rising up in those days, went into the hill country with haste, to a city of Judah,
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And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Juda;
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Mary arose in those days and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Judah,
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And Mary having arisen in those days, went to the hill-country, with haste, to a city of Judea,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 39. - Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste. Between the annunciation and this journey of Mary to visit her cousin Elisabeth, we must interpose the events narrated in St. Matthew's Gospel, viz. the natural suspicion of her betrothed future husband, Joseph. his action in the matter; and then the dream of Joseph, in which her innocence was vindicated. As we believe that St. Luke's story here was derived from Mary's own narrative, we can understand well that these details, related by St. Matthew, were scarcely touched upon, and the mother would hurry on to the real points of interest in that eventful past of hers. The hill country here alluded to is the elevated district of Judah, Benjamin, and Mount Ephraim, in contradistinction to the low maritime plain on the east - the old Philistia. Into a city of Juda. There is no such city known as "Juda." Some have supposed that the text is corrupt here, and that for "Yuda" we should read "Jutta," which, according to Joshua 15:55, was a priestly city in the hill country. There is a rabbinical tradition in the Talmud which places the residence of Zacharias at Hebron. It is very probable that Hebron, the great priestly city, is here signified.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(39) The hill country . . . a city of Juda.--The description is too vague to be identified with any certainty. The form of the proper noun is the same as that in "Bethlehem, of the land of Juda," in Matthew 2:6. The city may have been one of those assigned to the priests within the limits of the tribe of Judah, and if so, it is interesting to think of the Virgin as undertaking a journey which brought her not far from the very spot in which she was to give birth to the divine Child. No city of the name of Juda is known, but there is a Juttah in Joshua 15:55; Joshua 21:16, in the neighbourhood of Maon and the Judaean Carmel, and therefore in the "hill country," which may possibly be that which is here referred to.
