Joshua 18

Joshua 18:9

9.—and described it—into seven parts in a book,] The Hebrew words may signify “delineated it—in a book or map.” It is probable that they made a map of the country, drawn on a considerable scale, shewing every city and its boundaries, in seven parts, which, united together, formed a book. Script. illust

The rest of the land divided by lot. The lot of Simeon, Before CHRIST 1444.

went up to the side of Jericho on the north side, and went up through the mountains westward; and the goings out thereof were at the wilderness of Beth-aven.

Joshua 18:14

14. — compassed the corner of the sea southward.] It is certain that the border of the tribe of Benjamin did not compass any corner of the Mediterranean sea, nor come near to it. On this account it should be observed that the Hebrew word translated “sea,” may be understood to mean “the west,” on which side the sea (that is, the Great or Mediterranean sea) lay: so the same word is translated in ver. 12. Thus the plain meaning of the expression, “compassed the corner of the west,”

by the coasts thereof round about, according to their families.

Joshua 18:21

21. — Jericho.] As the city itself had been destroyed, the territory, probably, which was named from the city is here meant; or perhaps a few houses and walls were still standing in the city. Bp. Patrick.

Chap. XIX. ver. 2. — Beer-sheba, Sheba,] Beer-sheba, or Sheba; different names for the same place: it is ne-