Achshaph

How Nave’s arranged it

• An ancient city in North PalestineJoshua 11:1Joshua 12:20Joshua 19:25

The passages, in Bible order (3)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 3 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Joshua 11:1

   Now when Jabin king of Hazor heard about these things, he sent word to Jobab king of Madon; to the kings of Shimron and Achshaph;

   ›Commentary on Joshua 11:12 voices

   “Jabin (‘the Intelligent’), which seems to have been a hereditary title (Jud 4:2), took the lead, from Hazor being the capital of the northern region (Jos 11:10). It was situated on the borders of lake Merom. The other cities mentioned must have been in the vicinity though their exact position is unknown.”

   “Jabin - Probably the hereditary and official title of the kings of Hazor (see Jdg 4:2). The word means literally ‘he shall understand,’ and is equivalent to ‘the wise’ or ‘intelligent.’ Hazor - This name, which means ‘enclosed or ‘fortified,’ belonged also to two other towns in the south of Judah (compare Jos 15:23, Jos 15:25). The Hazor here in question, the head of the principalities of Northern Canaan Jos 11:10 overlooked the lake of Merom, and was afterward assigned to the tribe of Naphtali Jos 19:”

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2. Joshua 12:20

   the king of Shimron-meron, one; the king of Achshaph, one;

   ›Commentary on Joshua 12:201 voice

   “The king of Shimronmeron, one,.... See Jos 11:1, this place fell to the tribe of Zebulun, Jos 19:15, the king of Achshaph, one; see Jos 11:1; this city fell to the lot of Asher, Jos 19:25.”

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3. Joshua 19:25

   Their territory included Helkath, Hali, Beten, Achshaph,

   ›Commentary on Joshua 19:252 voices

   “And their border was Helkath,.... Helkath seems to be the same with Hukok, 1Ch 6:75; and according to Masius it lay ten or twelve miles above Ptolemais: and Hali, of which we read nowhere else. and Beten is by Jerom (h) called Bathne, and was in his time a village by the name of Bethebem, eight miles from Ptolemais to the east.”

   “Helkath, a Levitical town Jos 21:31, is probably Yerka, a village about seven or eight miles north-west of Acre, in a Wady of the same name. Alammelech was in the ‘Wady Melik,’ which joins the Kishon from the northeast, not far from the sea. Shihor-libnath - i. e. ‘black-white.’ The two words are now generally admitted to be the name of a river, probably the modern ‘Nahr Zerka,’ or Blue River, which reaches the sea about 8 miles south of Dor, and whose name has a correspondence both to black and white.”

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