See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-names]]

## the name of Debir was previously Kiriath Sepher ##

The author probably wrote this because his readers knew the city as Debir. But at the time Israel attacked it, it was called "Kiriath Sepher." AT: It used to be called Kiriath Sepher" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/writing-background]])

## previously ##

"in times past" or "an an earlier time"