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Commentaries on Joshua 19:20

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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 19:24; of Naphtali, its border and cities, Joshua...

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.

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 Judah, especially the former; the rest have both...