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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...
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...