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Joshua 15:42

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Libnah, Ether, Ashan,

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Libnah, and Ether, and Ashan,

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Libnah, and Ether, and Ashan,

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This verse in Joshua 15

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

And in the valley, Eshtaol, and Zoreah

on Joshua 15:33-47

The lowland and then the coast, and the coast is where the difficulty sits. Ekron, Ashdod and Gaza are written into Judah's inheritance at verses 45 to 47, and Joshua 11:22 had just said that the Anakim were left in those three towns. Zoreah and Eshtaol open the list, and they are where Samson is born and buried at Judges 13:2 and 16:31, so the tribe's paper border and the ground it actually holds are two different things from here on.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

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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Libnah,.... Here begins another division or list of the cities of Judah, in the valley or plain.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Libnah - See the note on Jos 10:29. Ether - From Jos 19:7 we learn that this city was afterwards given to the tribe of Simeon.

The words behind it

3 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.

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

Related verses

11 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Joshua 21:13So to the descendants of Aaron the priest they gave these cities, together with their pasturelands: Hebron, a city of refuge for the manslayer, Libnah,4 worksJoshua 10:29Then Joshua and all Israel with him moved on from Makkedah to Libnah and fought against Libnah.3 worksJoshua 19:7Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan—four cities, along with their villages,3 works1 Chronicles 6:59Ashan, Juttah, and Beth-shemesh, together with their pasturelands.3 works2 Kings 8:22So to this day Edom has been in rebellion against the hand of Judah. Likewise, Libnah rebelled at the same time.2 worksJoshua 12:15the king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;2 works
The other 5 cross-references, with their words ▾
1 Chronicles 6:57So the descendants of Aaron were given Hebron (a city of refuge), Libnah, Jattir, Eshtemoa,2 worksJoshua 21:16Ain, Juttah, and Beth-shemesh—nine cities from these two tribes, together with their pasturelands.2 works1 Samuel 30:30to those in Hormah, Bor-ashan, and Athach;2 works2 Kings 19:8When the Rabshakeh heard that the king of Assyria had left Lachish, he withdrew and found the king fighting against Libnah.2 worksJeremiah 52:1Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother’s name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah.2 works

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

    Joshua 10:29

    Then Joshua and all Israel with him moved on from Makkedah to Libnah and fought against Libnah.

    it leads to

    • Joshua 21:13

      So to the descendants of Aaron the priest they gave these cities, together with their pasturelands: Hebron, a city of refuge for the manslayer, Libnah,

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Joshua 12:15

      the king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;

    • Joshua 10:28

      On that day Joshua captured Makkedah and put it to the sword, along with its king. He devoted to destruction everyone in the city, leaving no survivors. So he did to the king of…

    • Joshua 8:29

      He hung the king of Ai on a tree until evening, and at sunset Joshua commanded that they take down the body from the tree and throw it down at the entrance of the…

  • Through

    2 Kings 8:22

    So to this day Edom has been in rebellion against the hand of Judah. Likewise, Libnah rebelled at the same time.

    it leads to

    • 2 Kings 19:8

      When the Rabshakeh heard that the king of Assyria had left Lachish, he withdrew and found the king fighting against Libnah.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Genesis 27:40

      You shall live by the sword and serve your brother. But when you rebel, you will tear his yoke from your neck.”

  • Through

    Joshua 12:15

    the king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;

    it leads to

    • Joshua 10:29–30

      Then Joshua and all Israel with him moved on from Makkedah to Libnah and fought against Libnah.

    • 1 Samuel 22:1

      So David left Gath and took refuge in the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and the rest of his father’s household heard about it, they went down to him there.

Where this verse is studied

About Joshua

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

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