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 19:24; of Naphtali, its border and cities, Joshua...
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 which was the birthplace of our Lord, called...
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 Judah, especially the former; the rest have both...