Joshua 18:11--19:51
Benjamin .......... Judah ... Joseph <01121> [between the children.]
Jericho <03405> [Jericho.]
desert <04057> [the wilderness.]
Luz .... slope ... Luz <03870 03802> [side of Luz.]
Beth Horon <01032> [Beth-horon.]
Kiriath Baal <07154> [Kirjath-baal.]
Nephtoah <05318> [Nephtoah.]
Valley ................... Valley <01516 01121> [the valley of the son.]
Valley ........ Valley .... Rephaites ......... Valley <01516 07497 06010> [the valley of the giants. See on ch.]
Jebusites <02983> [Jebusi.]
Mount zion, south of Jerusalem; for Jebusi or Jebus was the ancient name of that city.
En Rogel <05883> [En-rogel.]
En Shemesh <05885> [En-shemesh.]
The fountain of the Sun; whether a town, or simply a fountain, is uncertain.
Geliloth <01553> [Geliloth.]
Geliloth is probably the same as Gilgal; though as the word may signify border or limits, some think that it is probably not the proper name of a place: "And went forth towards the borders which are over against the ascent to Adummim." Others render Geliloth circuits or roundings, or the hills about Jordan, {tumuli Jordanis.} Vulgate: {pertransit usque ad tumulos.}
Stone <068> [the stone.]
Arabah ......... Arabah <06160> [Arabah. or, the plain.]
tip <03956> [bay. Heb. tongue.]
Salt <04417> [the salt.]
southern <05045> [this was the.]
The borders of this tribe on the north were the same as those of Ephraim on the south, and his southern boundaries the same as the northern borders of Judah; but drawn from west to east, instead of from east to west (ch. 15:1-12; ch. 16.) As the inheritance of Benjamin did not extend to the Mediterranean sea, and no other sea or lake is known to have been in those parts, perhaps this depression, "compassed the corner of the sea southward," (ver. 14,) should be rendered, "made a circuit on the side next the sea towards the south;" for it seems to connect the northern border, in the preceding verses, with the southern which follows.
Jericho <03405> [Jericho.]
Beth Hoglah <01031> [Beth-hoglah.]
Beth Arabah <01026> [Beth-arabah.]
Zemaraim <06787> [Zemaraim.]
Bethel <01008> [Beth-el.]
Ophrah <06084> [Ophrah.]
Situated, according to Eusebius, five miles east of Bethel.
Ophni <06078> [Ophni.]
Probably the same as Gophna (['Ayin] being often pronounced as G); which, according to Josephus, was about fifteen miles from Jerusalem, towards Shechem, says Eusebius, (Onom. in [pharaux botrous.])
Geba <01387> [Gaba.]
Gaba or Geba, according to Josephus, was not far from Rama, forty stadia from Jerusalem, and, according to Eusebius, five miles from Gophna, towards Shechem.
Gibeon <01391> [Gibeon.]
Ramah <07414> [Ramah.]
Situated, according to Eusebius, six miles from Jerusalem towards Bethel; though Jerome places it near Gaba, seven miles from Jerusalem.
[Ramathaim-zophim.]
[Arimathea. Beeroth.]
Eusebius says Beeroth was seven miles from Jerusalem, towards Nicopolis or Emmaus. Jerome, however, reads Neapolis or Shechem; but Reland prefers the former.
Mizpah <04708> [Mizpeh.]
Situated not far from Rama, forty stadia from Jerusalem.
Kephirah <03716> [Chephirah.]
Zelah <06762> [Zelah.]
Jebusite <02983> [Jebusi.]
Gibeah <01394> [Gibeath.]
[Gibeah. according.]
second lot <01486 08145> [second lot.]
[Beer-sheba, Sheba, and Moladah.]
[Bilhah, Ezem, Tolad, Bethuel.]
Hazar Shual <02705> [Hazar-shual.]
Eltolad <0513> [Eltolad.]
Hormah <02767> [Hormah.]
Ziklag <06860> [Ziklag.]
Hazar Susah <02701> [Hazar-susah.]
[Hazar-susim.]
Beth Lebaoth <01034> [Beth-lebaoth.]
Ain <05871> [Ain.]
Rimmon <07417> [Remmon.]
[Rimmon. Ether.]
Baalath Beer <01192> [Baalath-beer.]
Ramah <07414> [Ramath.]
[Ramoth.]
large <07227> [too much.]
<01121> [therefore.]
third <07992> [third.]
Zebulun <02074> [Zebulun.]
valley <05158> [the river.]
The river Kishon, which empties itself into the Mediterranean near mount Carmel, in the vicinity of which Jokneam was situated.
Jokneam <03362> [Jokneam.]
[Jokmeam.]
Kisloth Tabor <03696> [Chisloth-tabor.]
Called Chasalus by Eusebius and Jerome, and placed at the foot of mount Tabor, eight miles east of Dioc‘sarea.
Daberath <01705> [Daberath.]
Josephus, who calls this town Dabaritta, or Darabitta, places it in the plain of Jezreel, or Esdraelon, on the confines of Samaria and Galilee. It is probably the Dabira which Jerome place towards amount Tabor, in the district of Dioc‘sarea; and the Debora or Daboura, mentioned by travellers as a village at the foot of mount Tabor.
[Dabareh.]
Japhia <03309> [Japhia.]
Probably Japha, a city of Galilee, near Jotapata, mentioned by Josephus.
Gath Hepher <01662> [Gittah-hepher.]
Placed by Jerome two miles from Sephoris, or Dioc‘sarea, towards Tiberias.
[Gath-hepher. methoar. or, which is drawn.]
Kattah <07005> [Kattath, etc.]
[Nahalol. Shimron.]
Bethlehem <01035> [Beth-lehem.]
Jezreel <03157> [Jezreel.]
Kesulloth <03694> [Chesulloth.]
Probably the same as Chisloth-tabor.
Shunem <07766> [Shunem.]
Hapharaim <02663> [Hapharaim.]
A town called Aiphraim, in the time of Eusebius, six miles north of Legio.
[Shihon.]
A town called Seon by Eusebius, at the foot of mount Tabor.
En Gannim <05873> [En-gannim.]
Tabor <08396> [Tabor.]
Beth Shemesh <01053> [Beth-shemesh.]
The lot Asher lay upon the coast of the great sea. We read of only one remarkable person of this tribe, and that was Anna, the prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, a widow of about four-score and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.
Helkath <02520> [Helkath.]
Beten <0991> [Beten.]
Probably the same as Bebeten or Batnai, mentioned by Eusebius, eight miles east from Ptolemais; and perhaps the Ecbatana which Pliny places not far from Ptolemais.
Acshaph <0407> [Achshaph.]
Mishal <04861> [Misheal.]
Situated, according to Eusebius, near mount Carmel, on the sea coast.
[Marshal. Carmel.]
Beth Dagon <01016> [Beth-dagon.]
Zebulun <02074> [Zebulun.]
Situated on the sea coast, near Ptolemais.
Valley <01516> [valley.]
Cabul <03521> [Cabul.]
Supposed to be the same town which Josephus calls [Choboulo,] and which he says was situated near the sea side, near Ptolemais.
Rehob <07340> [Rehob.]
Kanah <07071> [Kanah.]
This seems a different Cana from that in Lower Galilee; and to be that which is placed in some maps east of Tyre, between Libanus and Antilibanus, and south of the river Cassimer, or Leitani.
[Cana. great.]
Ramah <07414> [Ramah.]
Probably the Rama mentioned by Theodoret as a city of Syria; and placed in some maps between Sarepta and Sidon, eastward, near Lebanon.
Tyre <06865> [Tyre. Heb. Tzor.]
Aczib <0392> [Achzib.]
Aphek <0663> [Aphek.]
Rehob <07340> [Rehob.]
Zaanannim <06815> [Zaanannim.]
[Zaanaim.]
turned <07725> [turneth.]
Aznoth Tabor <0243> [Aznoth-tabor.]
Apparently the same as Azanoth, which Eusebius places in the plain not far from Dioc‘sarea or Sephoris.
<03063> [Judah.]
As it is certain that the tribe of Naphtali did not border upon that of Judah, there being several tribes between, we should probably omit Judah, with the Septuagint; though it may have been a town so called.
Hammath <02575> [Hammath.]
[Hamath. Chinnereth.]
[Chinneroth.]
[Gennesaret.]
Hazor <02674> [Hazor.]
Kedesh <06943> [Kedesh.]
Beth Anath <01043> [Beth-anath.]
Eusebius mentions a town of the name of [Batanaian,] fifteen miles from C‘sarea. (Dioc‘sarea or Sephoris probably.)
Beth Shemesh <01053> [Beth-shemesh.]
Zorah <06881> [Zorah.]
Situated on the frontiers of Dan and Judah, tens miles north from Eleutheropolis, towards Nicoplis, according to Eusebius, not far from Caphar Sorek.
[Zoreah.]
Ir Shemesh <05905> [Irshemesh.]
Supposed by some to be the same as Beth-shemesh in the tribe of Judah; but this latter city is evidently distinguished from it by being assigned by the tribe of Judah to the Levites. (ch. 21:16.) Ir-shemesh rendered [polis Sammaus] by the LXX., seems to be the same as Emmaus or Nicopolis, 22 miles south-east from Lydda, according to the Old Jerusalem Itinerary.
Shaalabbin <08169> [Shaalabbin.]
Eusebius calls it [Salaba,] and places it in Samaria: and Jerome calls it Salebi, (Eze 48,) and joins it to Ajalon and Emmaus.
[Shaalbim. Ajalon.]
This appears to be the Ajalon which Jerome places two miles from Nicopolis or Emmaus, in the road to Jerusalem.
Timnah <08553> [Thimnathah.]
[Timnath. Ekron.]
Ekron is placed by Eusebius between Ashdod and Jamnia, eastward; and probably the ruined village of Tookrair, mentioned by Dr. Richarson, situated on the top of a hill, and which he says seems to have been a place of considerable consequence, occupies its site.
Gibbethon <01405> [Gibbethon.]
Baalath <01191> [Baalath.]
Gath Rimmon <01667> [Gath-rimmon.]
front <04136> [before. or, over against. Japho. or, Joppa.]
territory <01366> [the coast.]
Leshem .................. it ... renamed <03959 07121> [called Leshem.]
[Laish.]
gave <05414> [gave.]
Timnath <08556> [Timnath-serah.]
[Timnath-heres.]
land <05159> [These are.]
Shiloh <07887> [in Shiloh.]
