Joshua 15:32
in Joshua 15Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, and Rimmon—twenty-nine cities in all, along with their villages.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
and Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the cities are twenty and nine, with their villages.
KJV
And Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the cities are twenty and nine, with their villages:
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This verse in Joshua 15
Commentary
6 notes on this verseAnd Lebaoth,.... Whether Lebaoth is the same with Bethlebaoth, given to the tribe of Simeon, Jos 19:6; is not certain: and Shilhim is nowhere else spoken of: and Ain seems to be the same with that in Num 34:11; also See Gill on Num 34:11. and Rimmon, the place Jerom (e) calls Eremmon, which he says was a large village of the Jews, sixteen miles from Eleutheropolis to the south, in Daroma; this and the preceding are joined together as one, and called Enrimmon, Neh 11:
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 Awakening3 voices
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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), because nine of these were afterwards transferred to the lot of Simeon, and are reckoned as belonging to that, as appears by comparing ch. xix. 2 , &c.; therefore those only are counted (though the rest are named) which remained to Judah.
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Twenty nine - Here are thirty seven or thirty eight cities named before; how then are they only reckoned twenty nine? There were only twenty nine of them, which either, 1. properly belonged to Judah; the rest fell to Simeon's lot; or 2.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
All the cities are twenty and nine, with their villages - But on a careful examination we shall find thirty-eight; but it is supposed that nine of these are excepted; viz., Beersheba, Moladah, Hazarshual, Baalah, Azem, Hormah, Ziklag, Ain, and Rimmon, which were afterwards given to the tribe of Simeon. This may appear satisfactory, but perhaps the truth will be found to be this: Several cities in the promised land are expressed by compound terms; not knowing the places, different translations combine what should be separated, and in many cases separate what should be combined.
The words behind it
9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וּלְבָא֥וֹת | ulevaot | and Lebaoth | H3822 → | |
| וְשִׁלְחִ֖ים | veshilchim | and Shilhim | H7978 → | |
| וְעַ֣יִן | veayin | and Ain | H5871 → | 5 times |
| וְרִמּ֑וֹן | verimon | and Rimmon | H7417 → | 16 times |
| כָּל־ | kol- | all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| עָרִ֛ים | ʾarim | [the] cities | H5892 → | 1090 times |
| עֶשְׂרִ֥ים | ʾesrim | [were] twenty | H6242 → | |
| וָתֵ֖שַׁע | vatesha' | and nine | H8672 → | 58 times |
| וְחַצְרֵיהֶֽן׃ ס | vechatzreihen | and villages their | H2691 → | 191 times |
וּלְבָא֥וֹתand Lebaoth
ulevaotH3822 →
וְשִׁלְחִ֖יםand Shilhim
veshilchimH7978 →
וְעַ֣יִןand Ain
veayinH5871 →5 times
וְרִמּ֑וֹןand Rimmon
verimonH7417 →16 times
כָּל־all
kol-H3605 →5413 times
עָרִ֛ים[the] cities
ʾarimH5892 →1090 times
עֶשְׂרִ֥ים[were] twenty
ʾesrimH6242 →
וָתֵ֖שַׁעand nine
vatesha'H8672 →58 times
וְחַצְרֵיהֶֽן׃ סand villages their
vechatzreihenH2691 →191 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 34:11then go down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain and continue along the slopes east of the Sea of Chinnereth.
it leads to
- Deuteronomy 3:17
The Jordan River in the Arabah bordered it from Chinnereth to the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) with the slopes of Pisgah to the east.
- 2 Kings 23:33
And Pharaoh Neco imprisoned Jehoahaz at Riblah in the land of Hamath so that he could not reign in Jerusalem, and he imposed on Judah a levy of a hundred talents of silver and…
- Joshua 11:2
to the kings of the north in the mountains, in the Arabah south of Chinnereth, in the foothills, and in Naphoth-dor to the west;
- Joshua 19:35
The fortified cities were Ziddim, Zer, Hammath, Rakkath, Chinnereth,
- Jeremiah 39:5–6
But the army of the Chaldeans pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. They seized him and brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of…
- Deuteronomy 3:17
Through
Nehemiah 11:29in En-rimmon, Zorah, Jarmuth,
it leads to
- Joshua 19:41
The territory of their inheritance included Zorah, Eshtaol, Ir-shemesh,
- Judges 13:25
And the Spirit of the LORD began to stir him at Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.
- Joshua 12:11
the king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one;
- Joshua 19:41
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); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Joshua, Judges, Ruth and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.