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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And Hapharaim,.... The first of these is by Jerom (y) called Aphraim, a city of the tribe of Issachar; and adds, there is at this day a village called Affarea, six miles from Legion to the north; and Shion; of Seon or Soen, the same with Shion here, he says (z), there was a village of this name shown in his time near Mount Tabor; and Anaharath, of...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And Rabbith,.... The first of these Jerom calls (a) Rabboth in the tribe of Issachar; and Kishion, as Masius notes, seems to given name to the river Kishon near it; some take it to be the same with Kedesh, 1 Chronicles 6:72; and Abez, of which no mention is made elsewhere. (a) De loc. Heb. fol. 94. B.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And Remeth,.... Remeth seems to be the same with Jarmuth, Joshua 21:29; and with Ramoth, 1 Chronicles 6:73; and Engannim seems to be the same with Anem in 1 Chronicles 6:73: there were several of this name, which seem to have been places full of gardens, and well watered; for the word signifies a fountain of gardens. Engannim is now called Jenine,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the coast reacheth to Tabor,.... Tabor was the name of a mountain in those parts; it is generally supposed to be the mountain on which our Lord was transfigured, though it is not sufficiently evident; [See comments on Jeremiah 46:18]. There was a city of this name near it, 1 Chronicles 6:77, and which is meant here, and which either gave unto...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Issachar,.... Which fell to them by lot, as before described: according to their families; was divided among them, according to the number of them: the cities and their villages; the cities before enumerated, and the villages adjacent to them.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher,.... Which entitled them to an inheritance next described: according to their families; which was sufficient for them, and divided to them according to their number.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And their border was Helkath,.... Helkath seems to be the same with Hukok, 1 Chronicles 6:75; and according to Masius it lay ten or twelve miles above Ptolemais; and Hali, of which we read nowhere else. and Beten is by Jerom (h) called Bathne, and was in his time a village by the name of Bethebem, eight miles from Ptolemais to the east. Reland (i)...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And Alammelech, and Amad,.... Of the two first of these there is no mention elsewhere; and Misheal is the same with Mashal, 1 Chronicles 6:74; and is by Jerom (l) called Masan, and said to be near Carmel to the sea: and reacheth to Carmel westward; or, "to the sea", as Carmel is called "Carmel by the sea", [See comments on Jeremiah 46:18]: it is...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And turneth towards the sunrising,.... Or eastward, to Bethdagon; there was a city of this name in the tribe of Judah, [See comments on Joshua 15:41]. Dagon, being a god of the Phoenicians, had temples built for him in various places in Canaan: and reacheth to Zebulun; not the tribe of Zebulun, but a city so called, the same Josephus (o) calls a...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And Hebron,.... Hebron seems to be the same with Abdon, Joshua 21:30; ר and ד being changed, of which there are other instances; and hereby this is distinguished from another Hebron in the tribe of Judah, more commonly known, Joshua 15:54; and Rehob; in the time of Jerom (s), there was a village called Rooba, four miles from Scythopolis, and which...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And [then] the coast turneth to Ramah,.... Which was a city in the tribe of Naphtali, Joshua 19:36; and on the borders of Asher; though Jerom (y) distinguishes them, and speaks of a Ramah in Asher, and another in Naphtali, as different cities of the same name; as there were several of this name, so called from their being built on an eminence....
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Ummah also,.... Ummah is not mentioned any where else; and Aphek; of which, [See comments on Joshua 12:18]; and Rehob; of which, [See comments on Joshua 19:28]; twenty and two cities with their villages: there are more set down in the account, but some of them did not belong to the tribe, only were on the border of it.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher,.... As before described, a goodly heritage; it was, according to the prediction of Jacob and Moses, Genesis 49:20; a very fruitful country. Josephus (c) says, the country from Carmel called the valley, because it was such, even all over against Sidon, fell to the Asherites, Asher had...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The sixth lot came out to the children of Naphtali,.... The tribe of Naphtali, and directed what should be the inheritance of this tribe: [even] for the children of Naphtali, according to their families; which was to be divided among them, according to the number of their, families.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And their coast was from Heleph,.... That is, their northern coast, reaching from west to east, as appears by the ending of it at Jordan; the Alexandrian copy of the Greek version calls it Mlepeh, the Targum, Meheleph, and Jerom, Mealeb, which he calls the border of Naphtali; which, though to the north, cannot be expressly said what and where it...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And [then] the coast turneth westward to Aznothtabor,.... This was the southern border, reaching from east to west; it began at Aznothtabor, which Jerom (g) says was a village in his time belonging to the country of Diocaesarea, in the plains; there is another place called Chislothtabor, on the borders of Zebulun, Joshua 19:12; and goeth out from...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And the fenced cities [are] Ziddim,.... The later name of Ziddim, according to the Talmud (i), was Cepharchitiya, or the village of wheat, perhaps from the large quantity or goodness of wheat there; Zer is called by Jerom (k) Sor, and interpreted Tyre, the metropolis of Phoenicia, very wrongly, and, in the tribe of Naphtali; and Hammath probably...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And Adamah,.... Adamah is different from Adami, Joshua 19:33; and may seem to confirm the notion of some, that Nekeb there is an epithet of it, and so distinguishes it from Adamah here; and Ramah; of Ramah, as there were several places of this name, [See comments on Joshua 19:29]; and Hazor was a royal city, of which, [See comments on Joshua 11:1].
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And Kedesh,.... This is Kedesh in Galilee, in Mount Naphtali, to distinguish it from others of the same name; it was one of the cities of refuge, Joshua 20:7. Jerom says (m) in his day it was called Cidissus, and was twenty miles from Tyre by Paneas; [See comments on Joshua 12:22]. and Edrei is a different place from one of that name in the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And Iron,.... Of Iron no mention is made elsewhere; and Migdalel, which Jerom calls Magdiel, he says (m) was shown a small village, five miles from Dara, as you go to Ptolemais; and Horem is not mentioned anywhere elsewhere; and Bethanath; Jerom also relates (n), that Bathana, in the tribe of Naphtali, was a village that went by the name of...