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The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 19:22
The coast reacheth. Literally, the border skirteth, as in Joshua 19:11. Tabor. Perhaps the same as Chisloth-Tabor in Joshua 19:12 (cf. 1 Chronicles 6:77). It would therefore be, as Mount Tabor certainly was, on the boun…
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 19:23
This is the inheritance of the tribe of Issachar. Jacob, whose dying eye pierced far into the future, discerned beforehand the situation of the tribe of Issachar, and its results upon its conduct. Situated in the midst…
The Lot of Asher. (b. c. 1444.)
THE LOT OF ASHER. (B. C. 1444.) The lot of Asher lay upon the coast of the great sea. We read not of any famous person of this tribe but Anna the prophetess, who was a constant resident in the temple at the time of our…
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 19:25
Helkath. A Levitical city (Joshua 21:31; 1 Chronicles 6:75, where it is called Hukok).
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 19:26
Reacheth. Literally, toucheth, i.e. skirteth, as in Joshua 19:11 and Joshua 19:22. So in the next verse, with regard to Zebulun. The term appears to be the invariable one when a district, not a particular place, is spok…
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 19:27
Beth-dagon. We learn that Dagon, the fish-god, was worshipped here as well as in the south of Palestine (see Joshua 15:41). The Valley of Jiphthah-el. This valley, or gai, is mentioned above, Joshua 19:14, as the extrem…
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 19:28
Hebron. Rather, Ebron. It is not the same word as the Hebron in Judah, but is spelt with Ain instead of Hheth. In Joshua 21:30, 1 Chronicles 6:59, Abdon is the name of the city assigned to the Levites in Asher. Twenty M…
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 19:29
The strong city Tyre. Rather, the fortified city. The general impression among commentators appears to be that the island city of Tyre, afterwards so famous, had not as yet come into existence. And the word here used, מ…
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 19:30
Aphek (see Joshua 13:4). Twenty and two cities with their villages. The difficulty of tracing the boundary of Asher seems to be that it was traced, not by a line plainly marking out the territory, but less accurately, b…
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 19:31
This is the inheritance of the tribe of Asher. Asher appears to have been allotted a long but narrow strip of territory between Naphtali and the sea. The natural advantages of the territory must have been great. Not onl…
The Lot of Naphtali. (b. c. 1444.)
THE LOT OF NAPHTALI. (B. C. 1444.) Naphtali lay furthest north of all the tribes, bordering on Mount Libanus. The city of Leshem, or Liash, lay on the utmost edge of it to the north, and therefore when the Danites had m…
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 19:33
From Allon to Zaanannim. Or, the oak which is at Zaanannim (cf. Allon-bachuth, the oak of weeping, Genesis 35:8). Zaanannim is the same as the Zaanaim mentioned in 4:11. For (1) the Keri is Zaanannim there, and the word…
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 19:34
And then the coast turneth westward. Here the words are literally translated without any confusion between the west and the sea, nor any misapprehension of the meaning of the word נסב. Reacheth. This is the same word tr…
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 19:35
And the fenced cities. The remark is made in the 'Speaker's Commentary' that the number of fenced cities in the north were no doubt owing to a determination to protect the northern boundary of Israel by a chain of fortr…
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 19:36
Hazor (see above, Joshua 11:1-10).
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 19:37
Kedesh (see Joshua 12:22). It was the residence of Barak ( 4:6). Known to Josephus (Bell. Jud; 4. 2 3) as Cydoessa, to Eusebius and Jerome as Cydissus; it is now Kedes (see Robinson, 'Later Biblical Researches'). Edrei.…
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 19:38
Migdal-el. The Magdala of the New Testament. It lay on the lake of Gennesareth. Beth-shemesh. A common name, derived from the worship of the sun. This is neither Beth-shemesh of Judah nor of Issachar (see Joshua 19:22).
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 19:39
The inheritance of the tribe of the children of Naphtali. Of Naphtali, Beyond the not too heroic leader Barak, we hear nothing in the after history of Israel, until the fulfilment of the prophecy in Isaiah 9:1, Isaiah 9…
The Lot of Dan. (b. c. 1444.)
THE LOT OF DAN. (B. C. 1444.) Dan, though commander of one of the four squadrons of the camp of Israel, in the wilderness, that which brought up the rear, yet was last provided for in Canaan, and his lot fell in the sou…
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 19:41
Zorah and Eshtaol. On the border between Judah and Dan, but abandoned by the tribe of Judah to the Danites (see 13:2, 13:25). "The wild and impassable wadies, the steep, hard, rocky hills, their wildernesses of mastic,…
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 19:42
Aijalon, or Ajalon (see Joshua 10:12). One of the Levitical cities.
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 19:43
Ekron (see Joshua 13:3).
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 19:44
Gibbethon. A Levitical city, as was also Eltekeh (see Joshua 21:23). It was the same city as that mentioned as "belonging to the Philistines" in 1 Kings 15:27; 1 Kings 16:15, 1 Kings 16:17.
The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 19:45
Gathrimmon. Also a Levitical city (see Joshua 21:24; 1 Chronicles 6:69). Mejarkon. The waters of the Jarkon.