Joshua 19

Joshua 19:1

LOt came forth] See Joshua 18:11.

within the inheritance] To wit, according to Jacobs prophecie, That he should be scattered among the other tribes, Genesis 49:7.

Joshua 19:2

and Sheba] Some read it, or Sheba, and do think that these two names signifie but one city divided into two parts by a wall or river; or otherwise there should be here fourteen cities instead of thirteen, reckoned vers. 6. Besides, in 1 Chron. 4. 28. where this story is repeated, Sheba is left out.

Joshua 19:3

Balah] Which city is called Bilha, 1 Chron. 4. 29. and such alterations in names are frequent in the scriptures, and other authors, caused by length of time, and other accidents.

Joshua 19:9

children of Simeon] See the note on Joshua 15:32.

Joshua 19:13

Gittah-hepher] Which was the birth-place of Jonah, 2 Kin. 14. 25.

Joshua 19:15

Beth-lehem] Not in the tribe of Judah, where Christ was born, but another of that name in the tribe of Zebulun, vers. 10.

villages] Some of the chiefest whereof are reckoned here with the cities.

Joshua 19:17

Cabul] Some think this not to be a city, but a countrey, containing in it twenty cities, which Solomon gave to Hiram, 1 Kings 9:11. and the rather, because he reckoneth here but two and twenty cities; whereas, if this were one, there should be three and twenty. But yet it seemeth that that Cabul was so first called by Hiram, on that occasion, because it was displeasing, or dirty; or therefore displeasing, because dirty. Besides, that Cabul was not a part of the land of promise, but some place adjoyning to it; for otherwise it had been unlawfull for Solomon to alienate it, by giving it to a stranger.

Joshua 19:21

En-gannim] There was another city of this name in the tribe of Judah; for in divers tribes were cities of the same name, and were onely differenced by the severall tribes in which they were, one from another.

Joshua 19:28

Hebron] Not that in Judah, but in this tribe of Asher, which in the originall are differenced by divers letters, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.

great Zidon] Not called so because there was a lesse, but in respect of her fame and excellency.

Joshua 19:29

Tyre] Hebr. Tzor; 1: e. a rock, as being built on a rock, and environed with rocks and the sea. This belonged to Asher, but the heathens held it in possession, 2 Samuel 5:11. 2 King. 5. 1, 2.

Joshua 19:47

Leshem, Dan] After the name of their patriarch Dan. This city was situate at the bottom of mount Lebanon, in the northern confine of the countrey opposite to Beer-sheba, which is the southern border; and afterwards called Caesare Philippi.

Joshua 19:50

Timnath-serah] Called Timnath-heres, Judg. 2. 9. where Joshua afterwards was buried, Joshua 24:30.

Joshua 19:51

This verse is the conclusion of what hath been said concerning the distribution of the land, from the fourteenth Chapter hitherto.