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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Joshua 19 In this chapter an account is given of the lots of the six remaining tribes, and the cities in them, as of Simeon, whose cities were chiefly within the tribe of Judah, Joshua 19:1; of Zebulun, its border and cities, Joshua 19:10; of Issachar, its border and cities, Joshua 19:17; of Asher, its border and cities, Joshua...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the second lot came forth to Simeon,.... That is, the second of the seven lots, of which Benjamin's was the first; otherwise there were the two lots of Judah and Joseph, which preceded both these: [even] for the tribe of the children of Simeon, according to their families; for though many of their cities had been given by lot to the tribe of...
Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Matthew Henry
In the description of the lots of Judah and Benjamin we have an account both of the borders that surrounded them and of the cities contained in them. In that of Ephraim and Manasseh we have the borders, but not the cities; in this chapter Simeon and Dan are described by their cities only, and not their borders, because they lay very much within...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And they had in their inheritance Beersheba and Sheba,.... Or, Beersheba, that is, Sheba; for so the particle "vau" is sometimes used (z), and must be so used here; or otherwise, instead of thirteen, it will appear that there are fourteen cities, contrary to the account of them, Joshua 19:6; so Kimchi and Ben Melech make them one city. And it may...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And Hazarshual,.... [See comments on Joshua 15:28]; and Balah, and Azem; of these places see Gill "Joshua 15:29"; for Balah is the same with Baalah there, and with Bilhah 1 Chronicles 4:29; and Azem with Ezem there.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And Eltolad, and Bethul, and Hormah. These were all cities of Judah, Joshua 15:30; Eltolad is the same with Tolad, and Bethul with Bethuel, 1 Chronicles 4:29, and with Chesil, Joshua 15:30, mentioned there along with Hormah; [See comments on Joshua 15:30].
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And Ziklag,.... Another of the cities of Judah, [See comments on Joshua 15:31]; and Bethmarcaboth, and Hazarsusah; or Hazarsusim, as in 1 Chronicles 4:31; the one signifies a chariot house, and the other a court or stable for horses, which made Bochart conjecture (a), that they were places where Solomon kept his chariots and horses; but it should...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And Bethlebaoth, and Sharuhen,.... Whether the first is the same with Lebaoth, a city of Judah, Joshua 15:32; and with the Bethleptepha of Josephus (b), and the Betholene of Pliny (c), is not certain: in this place secret to have been an idol temple of the Canaanites, dedicated to lions, as in Egypt there was a city called Leontopolis, from whence...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Ain, Remmon,.... Of the two first, which were cities of Judah, [See comments on Joshua 15:32]; and Ether, and Ashan; of the two last, see Gill "Joshua 19:42"; four cities and their villages; Ain, Remmon, therefore, could not be one city, at this time, as it seems to have been in the times of Nehemiah, Ne 11:29; or otherwise there would have been...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And all the villages that [were] round about these cities,.... Not only the suburbs adjoining to those cities which are mentioned before, but the several small distinct towns and villages, scattered up and down in the country: to Baalathbeer, Ramath of the south: this is the same with Baal in 1 Chronicles 4:33; and with Ramath of the south, or...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Out of the portion of the children of Judah [was] the inheritance of the children of Simeon,.... Which is the reason why no description is given of the border of their inheritance, because that is before given in the account of the lot of Judah: for the part of the children of Judah was too much for them: they had more cities than they could fill...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the third lot came up for the children of Zebulun, according to their families,.... Who, though younger than Issachar, has his lot before him, agreeably to the order in which his blessing is predicted, both by Jacob and Moses, Genesis 49:13; and the border of their inheritance was unto Sarid; or "by Sarid", as Masius, who takes this to be the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And their border went up toward the sea,.... Westward towards the Mediterranean sea, which fulfilled the prophecies of Jacob and Moses, that Zebulun should dwell by the sea, be an haven of ships, and take of the abundance of the seas, as in the places before referred to; and so Josephus says, the Zebulunites took the land unto the lake of...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And turned from Sarid eastward,.... This describes the southern border, going on from west to east: towards the sunrising, unto the border of Chislothtabor; this Jerom places in the tribe of Issachar, it bordered on both tribes; and he says (l), that in his time there was a little village called Chaselus, eight miles from Diocaesarea, at the foot...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And from thence passeth on along on the east to Gittahhepher,.... Which was the native place of Jonah the prophet, 2 Kings 14:25; and where Jerom says (r) his grave was shown, and was a small village in his time two miles from Sippore, then called Diocaesarea, to Ittahkazin; of this place we have no account elsewhere, but it was not far from the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the border compasseth it from the north side to Hannathon,.... This is the northern border of the tribe, which took a circuit from the last place to this; of which and the following place we have no account; Jerom only makes mention of them as in the tribe of Zebulun: and the outgoings thereof are in the valley of Jiphthahel; here the northern...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And Kattath, and Nahallal,.... Of the two first of these we read nowhere else, but in Joshua 21:34; and Shimron was a royal city, the king of which Joshua took and hanged, Joshua 11:1; and Idalah is a place Bochart conjectures (t) where the goddess Venus was worshipped, Idalia being one of her names; and Bethlehem is a different place from that...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
This is the inheritance of the children of Zebulun, according to their families,.... Which was allotted to it and divided, according to the number of its families: these cities with their villages; before enumerated, excepting such as only bordered on them; though indeed there were other cities which belonged to them, or might be after given them,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[And] the fourth lot came out to Issachar,.... The fourth of the seven drawn at Shiloh: for the children of Issachar, according to their families: among whom the inheritance that came to them by the lot was divided, according to the number of them.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And their border was towards Jezreel,.... Which was a royal seat in the time of Ahab, 1 Kings 21:1; and according to Jerom was near to Maximianopolis; [See comments on Hosea 1:5]; and the same writer (u) says in his day a large village of this name was shown in the great plain between Scythopolis and Legion (he means the plain of Jezreel), and it...