Joshua 15:32
Context15:32 Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, and Rimmon – a total of twenty-nine cities and their towns. 1
Joshua 15:41
Context15:41 Gederoth, Beth Dagon, Naamah, and Makkedah – a total of sixteen cities and their towns.
Joshua 15:54
Context15:54 Humtah, Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron), and Zior – a total of nine cities and their towns.
Joshua 15:60
Context15:60 Kiriath Baal (that is, Kiriath Jearim) and Rabbah – a total of two cities and their towns.
Joshua 16:9
Context16:9 Also included were the cities set apart for the tribe of Ephraim within Manasseh’s territory, along with their towns. 2
Joshua 19:15
Context19:15 Their territory included Kattah, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem; 3 in all they had twelve cities and their towns. 4
Joshua 19:31
Context19:31 This was the land assigned to the tribe of Asher 5 by its clans, including these cities and their towns.
Joshua 19:38
Context19:38 Yiron, 6 Migdal El, Horem, Beth Anath, and Beth Shemesh. In all they had 7 nineteen cities and their towns.
Joshua 19:48
Context19:48 This was the land assigned to the tribe of Dan 8 by its clans, including these cities and their towns.
Joshua 21:12
Context21:12 (Now the city’s fields and surrounding towns they had assigned to Caleb son of Jephunneh as his property.)


[15:32] 1 tn The total number of names in the list is thirty-six, not twenty-nine. Perhaps (1) some of the names are alternatives (though the text appears to delineate clearly such alternative names here and elsewhere, see vv. 8, 9, 10, 13, 25b) or (2), more likely, later scribes added to a list originally numbering twenty-nine and failed to harmonize the concluding summary statement with the expanded list.
[16:9] 2 tn Heb “and the cities set apart for the sons of Ephraim in the midst of the inheritance of the sons of Manasseh, all the cities and their towns.”
[19:15] 3 map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.
[19:15] 4 tn Heb “Kattah, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem, twelve cities and their towns.” The words “their territory included” and “in all they had” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
[19:31] 4 tn Heb “this was the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Asher.”
[19:38] 5 sn Instead of Yiron some English translations read Iron.
[19:38] 6 tn The words “in all they had” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
[19:48] 6 tn Heb “this was the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Dan.”