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The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 15:19
A southland. Hebrew, the southland. The word Negeb signifies dry (see note on Negeb, Joshua 10:40). It must be remembered that it became the word for south, because the south of Palestine was an arid tract. Therefore Ac…
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 15:20
This is the inheritance. The territory of Judah is divided into four parts, in the summary which follows: the "south," the "valley," the "mountains," and the "wilderness." Tribe. Here מַטֶּה (see note Joshua 13:29).
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 15:21
Coast. Rather, border (see note Joshua 15:4). Southward. The term here used (see above, Joshua 15:19) for "south" is the one which has the signification of dryness. It is, however, occasionally used in a less strict sen…
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 15:22
Their villages (see note Joshua 13:28).
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 15:22
Kinah. Knobel suggests that this was the city of the Kenites, a supposition which derives some support from 1:16 and 1 Samuel 15:6.
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 15:24
Telem. This is identified by Knobel with the Telaim mentioned in 1 Samuel 15:4. Conder, in his 'Handbook,' supports this view, but nothing more is known of the place.
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 15:29
Iim. The Alexandrian version of LXX. has ἀυείμ here. If this be correct, the city was named after the Avim (see note on Joshua 13:4). If we take the reading in the text we must interpret by ruins (see note on Ai, Josh…
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 15:32
Ain, Rimmon (see Joshua 19:7; 1 Chronicles 4:1-43 :82; Nehemiah 11:29). More likely the name of one place Ain-Rimmon, the fountain of the god Rimmon. For Rimmon see 2 Kings 5:18. The word signifying eye, or fountain, is…
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 15:32
Twenty-nine. There is another of the very common errors of numbers here. The actual number is thirty-six. The error is as old as the LXX. version.
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 15:33
The valley. בַּשְפֵלָה (see note on Joshua 9:1; Joshua 10:40). This was the fertile part of Judah, and formed a part of the rich plain which has been described as extending northward as far as Carmel. It was "renowned f…
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 15:44
Mareshah. One of Rehoboam's fortified cities (2 Chronicles 11:8). Here Asa met Zerah the Ethiopian, or Cushite, and overthrew him (2 Chronicles 14:9). Here lived the prophet who foretold the destruction of Jehoshaphat's…
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 15:45
Ekron, with her towns and her villages. Literally, her daughters and her farm hamlets (see note on Joshua 13:28). These cities of the Philistines had, like Gibeon, daughter cities dependent on them, and must therefore h…
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 15:48
The mountains. Compare the expression, "the hill country of Judaea" ( τῇ ὀρεινῇ, the same as here in the LXX), Luke 1:65. It extends northwards from near Debir to Jerusalem, attaining at Hebron a height of about 2,…
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 15:51
Giloh. Perhaps the city of Ahithophel.
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 15:55
Maon, Carmel, and Ziph. These, as Dean Stanley reminds us, still retain unaltered their old names. "That long line of hills was the beginning of the 'hill country of Judaea,' and when we began to ascend it the first ans…
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 15:60
Kirjath Baal. Before these words the LXX. insert the names of eleven more cities, among which Tekoah and Bethlehem are included. For the former see 2 Samuel 14:2; 2 Chronicles 11:6; 2 Chronicles 20:20. The prophet Amos…
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 15:61
The wilderness. מִדְבַּר; This was the eastern part of the territory of Judah, bordering on the Dead Sea. Here David took refuge from the pursuit of Saul (Psalms 63:1), here St. John the Baptist prepared the way of Chri…
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 15:62
The city of Salt. Probably near the valley of Salt (2 Samuel 8:13; 2 Kings 14:7; 1 Chronicles 18:12), which must have been near the border of Edom, and in close proximity to the Dead Sea (see note on Joshua 3:16). En-ge…
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 15:63
As for the Jebusites. This passage, compared with 1:8, 1:21, and 2 Samuel 5:6, implies that the people of Judah took and set on fire the lower city, but were compelled to leave the stronghold of Zion in the hands of the…
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 15:63
Invisible Jebusites. The failure of the men of Judah to conquer the Jebusites is illustrative of the failures men too commonly encounter in the attempt to accomplish the aims of life. I. NO MAN PERFECTLY SUCCEEDS IN THE…
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 15:63
Failure. We have here the first hint of the incompleteness of Israel's conquest of the land. The effects of this failure fully to carry out the Divine command in the extermination of the heathen were very manifest after…
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 16:1-10
EXPOSITION THE INHERITANCE OF EPHRAIM AND MANASSEH.
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 16:1
Fell. Literally came forth, i.e; out of the urn. The water of Jericho. "This is the present fountain of es Sultan, half an hour to the west of Ribs, the only large fountain in the neighbourhood of Jericho, whose waters…
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 16:2
From Bethel to Luz. Like Jerusalem and AElia Capitolina, or old and new Carthage, the new city did not coincide precisely in its site with the old one (see Joshua 18:13; also Genesis 28:19; Genesis 35:6; 1:23). Bethel w…