Joshua 13:4-33
Canaanite territory <0776 03669> [the land of.]
Arah <04632> [Mearah. or, the cave. Aphek.]
This is probably the Aphek spoken of in 1 Ki 20:26. 2 Ki 13:18, as the capital of the kings of Syria; and the same as is mentioned by Sozomen, Eusebius, and Theophanes, as situated near the river Adonis (now Nahr Ibrahim,) between Heliopolis and Byblos, and celebrated for the infamous temple of Venus the Aphacite. The village Afka, situated in the bottom of a valley, and hour and three quarters from Akoura, and three hours' distance from Lake Liemoun, is supposed to occupy its site. Burckhardt, however, could not hear of any remains of antiquity in it neighbourhood.
Amorite <0567> [the Amorites.]
Byblos <01382> [Giblites.]
Probably the inhabitants of the country, around Gebal, (Eze 27:9,) or Byblos, as the LXX. render, a city of Phoenicia, situated on the Mediterranean, between Sidon and Tripoli, on the north of the river Adonis. It is now called Gibyle, of Djebail, situated about a day's journey south of Tripoli. Its walls are about a mile in circumference, with square towers about every forty yards' distance. Anciently it must have been a place of no mean extent and of considerable beauty, from the ruins still visible.
Lebanon <03844> [Lebanon.]
Baal Gad <01171> [Baal-gad.]
Mount <02022> [under mount.]
<0935> [unto the.]
Misrephoth <04956> [Misrephoth-maim.]
drive <03423> [them.]
sure <05307> [only divide.]
Moses ...... assigned <05414 04872> [Moses gave.]
Aroer <06177> [Aroer.]
plain <04334> [all the plain.]
Og <05747> [Og.]
Moses <04872> [these did.]
conquer <03423> [expelled.]
[See the Note on verse 33.]
Dibon <01769> [Dibon.]
Eusebius says the city was situated in the plain of Arnon.
Bamoth Baal <01120> [Bamoth-baal. or, the high places of Baal, and the house of]
Baal-meon.
[Jahaza.]
A city near Medeba and Dibon, afterwards given to the Levites.
[Jahaz.]
[Jahzah. Kedemoth.]
Supposed to have been situated east of the Arnon.
Mephaath <04158> [Mephaath.]
Situated near the desert, east of Moab. In the time of Eusebius, he says the Romans kept a garrison there.
Kiriathaim <07156> [And Kirjathaim.]
This city, according to Eusebius, was situated ten miles west of Medeba.
[Sibman.]
Called Shibmah, Nu 32:38, and celebrated for its vines Jer 48:32. Isa 16:8, 9; on which last place, Jerome says, there were scarcely 500 paces between it and Heshbon.
Beth Peor <01047> [Beth-peor.]
<0798> [Ashdoth-pisgah. or, springs of Pisgah, or, the hill.]
Beth Jeshimoth <01020> [Beth-jeshimoth.]
cities ........ realm <05892 04468> [And all the.]
Moses <04872> [whom Moses.]
leaders <05387> [with the.]
Balaam <01109> [Balaam.]
omen <07080> [soothsayer. or, diviner.]
territory <01366> [their coast.]
Jazer <03270> [Jazer.]
A city near a brook of the same name, now called Wady Szyr; and probably the present Szyr occupies its site.
half <02677> [half.]
Rabbah <07237> [Rabbah.]
Ramath Mizpah <07434> [Ramath-mizpeh.]
Mahanaim <04266> [Mahanaim.]
Debir <01688> [Debir.]
[Lodebar.]
Beth Haram <01027> [Beth-aram.]
A city near mount Peor, and not far from the entrance of the Jordan into the Dead Sea; rebuilt and called Livias by Herod, in honour of Livia, wife of Augustus.
Beth Nimrah <01039> [Beth-nimrah.]
Succoth <05523> [Succoth.]
Kinnereth <03672> [Chinnereth.]
[Chinneroth.]
[Gennesaret.]
Ashtaroth <06252> [Ashtaroth.]
descendants ... Makir son ....... descendants ... Makir <04353 01121> [the children of Machir by.]
At verse 14, as well as here, notice is taken, that to the tribe of Levi, "Moses gave no inheritance," for so God had appointed. Nu 18:20. If they had been appointed to a lot entire by themselves, Moses would have served them first, not because it was his own tribe, but because it was God's, but they must be provided for in another manner; their habitation must be scattered in all the tribes, and their maintenance brought out of all the tribes, and God himself was the portion both of their inheritance and of their cup.
