Joshua 15:30
in Joshua 15Eltolad, Chesil, Hormah,
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and Eltolad, and Chesil, and Hormah,
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And Eltolad, and Chesil, and Hormah,
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This verse in Joshua 15
Commentary
4 notes on this verseAnd Eltolad,.... The first of these cities is called Tolad, 1Ch 4:29, and Chesil seems to be the same with Bethul and Bethuel, Jos 19:4 1Ch 4:30; and here the Greek version calls it Baithel: and Hormah is the same with Zephath, Jdg 1:17. All these three cities were given to the tribe of Simeon, Jos 19:4.
This site's exposition
This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah
on Joshua 15:20-32
The cities are grouped by region rather than listed at random, and this run covers the dry south toward Edom. A list like this is a legal record of title, which is why later books can argue from it, and why a town's tribe can be settled by looking it up. Beersheba stands in the middle of it at verse 28, already old by Genesis 21:31.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
And when this was done there was a more equal dividend (either in quantity or quality) of the remainder among the seven tribes. And this, probably, was intended in that general rule which was given concerning this partition ( Num. xxxiii.
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The Nineteenth Century1 voice
Hormah - A place rendered famous by the defeat of the Hebrews by the Canaanites. See Num 14:45, Deu 1:44.
The words behind it
3 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְאֶלְתּוֹלַ֥ד | veeltolad | and Eltolad | H513 → | |
| וּכְסִ֖יל | ukhesil | and Kesil | H3686 → | |
| וְחָרְמָֽה׃ | vecharemah | and Hormah | H2767 → | 9 times |
וְאֶלְתּוֹלַ֥דand Eltolad
veeltoladH513 →
וּכְסִ֖ילand Kesil
ukhesilH3686 →
וְחָרְמָֽה׃and Hormah
vecharemahH2767 →9 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach 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
Numbers 14:45Then the Amalekites and Canaanites who lived in that part of the hill country came down, attacked them, and routed them all the way to Hormah.
it leads to
- Numbers 21:3
And the LORD heard Israel’s plea and delivered up the Canaanites. Israel devoted them and their cities to destruction; so they named the place Hormah.
Reached by 3 separate paths from here.
- Judges 1:17
Then the men of Judah went with their brothers the Simeonites, attacked the Canaanites living in Zephath, and devoted the city to destruction. So it was called Hormah.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Deuteronomy 1:44
Then the Amorites who lived in the hills came out against you and chased you like a swarm of bees. They routed you from Seir all the way to Hormah.
- Deuteronomy 32:30
How could one man pursue a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the LORD had given them up?
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Numbers 14:43
For there the Amalekites and Canaanites will face you, and you will fall by the sword. Because you have turned away from the LORD, He will not be with you.”
- Numbers 21:3
Through
Deuteronomy 1:44Then the Amorites who lived in the hills came out against you and chased you like a swarm of bees. They routed you from Seir all the way to Hormah.
it leads to
- Numbers 14:45
Then the Amalekites and Canaanites who lived in that part of the hill country came down, attacked them, and routed them all the way to Hormah.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Psalms 118:12
They swarmed around me like bees, but they were extinguished like burning thorns; in the name of the LORD I cut them off.
- Isaiah 7:18
On that day the LORD will whistle to the flies at the farthest streams of the Nile and to the bees in the land of Assyria.
- Numbers 14:45
Where this verse is studied
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About Joshua
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Joshua, Judges, Ruth and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.