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Joshua 13:5

in Joshua 13

the land of the Gebalites; and all Lebanon to the east, from Baal-gad below Mount Hermon to Lebo-hamath.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

and the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrising, from Baal-gad under mount Hermon unto the entrance of Hamath;

KJV

And the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrising, from Baal–gad under mount Hermon unto the entering into Hamath.

This verse in Joshua 13

Commentary

3 notes on this verse
Giblites - The people of Gebal (“Jebail”, 22 miles north of Beyronut). They were “stone-squarers” 1Ki 5:18 and (ship) “caulkers” Eze 27:9.

This site's exposition

remaineth yet very much land

on Joshua 13:1-7

Joshua 21:45 says of this same conquest that there failed not ought of any good thing which the Lord had spoken, verse 1 says much land is still unpossessed, and both stand in the one book. Adam Clarke reads the remainder against the condition of obedience, noting that the Sidonians of verse 6 were never expelled and were only brought into subjection under David and Solomon, while other readers take Joshua to speak of the land as granted rather than as occupied. Verse 3 counts five lords of the Philistines, which is the first time Scripture gives them that title, and the same five run on through Judges 16 and 1 Samuel 5. Verse 6 puts the order plainly, divide thou it by lot, so the ground is allotted before it is held.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

on Joshua 13:2-6

Both included that portion of the country "from Sihor, which is before Egypt," a small brook near El-Arish, which on the east was the southern boundary of Canaan, to Ekron, the most northerly of the five chief lordships or principalities of the Philistines. 3, 4. also the Avites: From [on] the south--The two clauses are thus connected in the Septuagint and many other versions.

The words behind it

14 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְהָאָ֣רֶץand the land of

    vehaaretzH7762504 times

  • הַגִּבְלִ֗יthe Gebalite[s]

    hagivliH1382

  • וְכָל־and all

    vekholH36055413 times

  • הַלְּבָנוֹן֙<the> Lebanon

    halevanonH384471 times

  • מִזְרַ֣ח[the] rising of

    mizrachH421774 times

  • הַשֶּׁ֔מֶשׁthe sun

    hashemeshH8121134 times

  • מִבַּ֣עַלfrom Baal

    mibaalH11716 times

  • גָּ֔דGad

    gadH11716 times

  • תַּ֖חַתunder

    tachatH8478505 times

  • הַר־[the] mountain of

    har-H2022546 times

  • חֶרְמ֑וֹןHermon

    chermonH276813 times

  • עַ֖דto

    ʾadH57041261 times

  • לְב֥וֹאLebo

    levo'H9352568 times

  • חֲמָֽת׃Hamath

    chamatH2574

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    1 Kings 5:18

    So Solomon’s and Hiram’s builders, along with the Gebalites, quarried the stone and prepared the timber and stone for the construction of the temple.

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 27:9

      The elders of Gebal were aboard as shipwrights, repairing your leaks. All the ships of the sea and their sailors came alongside to barter for your merchandise.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

  • Through

    Ezekiel 27:9

    The elders of Gebal were aboard as shipwrights, repairing your leaks. All the ships of the sea and their sailors came alongside to barter for your merchandise.

    it leads to

    • Psalms 83:7

      of Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, of Philistia with the people of Tyre.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 1 Kings 5:18

      So Solomon’s and Hiram’s builders, along with the Gebalites, quarried the stone and prepared the timber and stone for the construction of the temple.

  • Through

    Joshua 12:7

    And these are the kings of the land that Joshua and the Israelites conquered beyond the Jordan to the west, from Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir…

    it leads to

    • Joshua 11:17

      from Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir, as far as Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon at the foot of Mount Hermon. He captured all their kings and struck them down, putting them to…

    • Joshua 11:23

      So Joshua took the entire land, in keeping with all that the LORD had spoken to Moses. And Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to the allotments to their tribes. Then…

  • Through

    Numbers 34:8

    and from Mount Hor to Lebo-hamath, then extend to Zedad,

    it leads to

    • Numbers 13:21

      So they went up and spied out the land from the Wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, toward Lebo-hamath.

    • 2 Kings 14:25

      This Jeroboam restored the boundary of Israel from Lebo-hamath to the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word that the LORD, the God of Israel, had spoken through His servant Jonah son of…

  • Through

    Psalms 83:7

    of Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, of Philistia with the people of Tyre.

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 27:3

      Tell Tyre, who dwells at the gateway to the sea, merchant of the peoples on many coasts, that this is what the Lord GOD says: You have said, O Tyre, ‘I am perfect in…

About Joshua

The Walls of Jericho Fall Down, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Walls of Jericho Fall Down, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Joshua, Judges, Ruth.