Joshua 15:62
in Joshua 15Beth-arabah, Middin, Secacah, Nibshan, the City of Salt, and En-gedi—six cities, along with their villages.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
and Nibshan, and the City of Salt, and En-gedi; six cities with their villages.
KJV
And Nibshan, and the city of Salt, and En–gedi; six cities with their villages.
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This verse in Joshua 15
Commentary
4 notes on this verseThe city of Salt - Or of Melach. This city was somewhere in the vicinity of the lake Asphaltites, the waters of which are the saltest perhaps in the world. The whole country abounds with salt: see the note on Gen 19:25. Some suppose that it is the same as Zoar, the place to which Lot escaped after the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. En-gedi - The well of the kid: it was situated between Jericho and the lake of Sodom or Dead Sea.
This site's exposition
And in the mountains, Shamir, and Jattir
on Joshua 15:48-62
The hill country and then the wilderness beside the salt sea. Bethlehem is absent from the King James list at verse 59, and the Septuagint carries eleven further towns there including it, which is the largest textual variant in the chapter and is worth naming rather than passing over. Engedi and the City of Salt close the run at verses 62 to 63, in the country where David later hides from Saul.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 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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And Nibshan,.... Of Nibshan no mention is made elsewhere: and the city of Salt some take to be Zoar, so called because near the salt sea, or where Lot's wife was turned into a pillar of salt, Gen 19:22; but rather this city might be so called, because salt was made here. and Engedi, or Engaddi, is a well known place, near the salt sea; See Gill on Eze 47:
The words behind it
8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְהַנִּבְשָׁ֥ן | vehanivshan | and <the> Nibshan | H5044 → | |
| וְעִיר־ | veir- | and [the] city of | H5898 → | |
| הַמֶּ֖לַח | hamelach | <the> Salt | H5898 → | |
| וְעֵ֣ין | veein | and En | H5872 → | |
| גֶּ֑דִי | gedi | Gedi | H5872 → | |
| עָרִ֥ים | ʾarim | cities | H5892 → | 1090 times |
| שֵׁ֖שׁ | shesh | six | H8337 → | 216 times |
| וְחַצְרֵיהֶֽן׃ | vechatzreihen | and villages their | H2691 → | 191 times |
וְהַנִּבְשָׁ֥ןand <the> Nibshan
vehanivshanH5044 →
וְעִיר־and [the] city of
veir-H5898 →
הַמֶּ֖לַח<the> Salt
hamelachH5898 →
וְעֵ֣יןand En
veeinH5872 →
גֶּ֑דִיGedi
gediH5872 →
עָרִ֥יםcities
ʾarimH5892 →1090 times
שֵׁ֖שׁsix
sheshH8337 →216 times
וְחַצְרֵיהֶֽן׃and 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
2 Chronicles 20:2Then some men came and told Jehoshaphat, “A vast army is coming against you from Edom, from beyond the Sea; they are already in Hazazon-tamar” (that is, En-gedi).
it leads to
- Genesis 14:7
Then they turned back to invade En-mishpat (that is, Kadesh), and they conquered the whole territory of the Amalekites, as well as the Amorites who lived in Hazazon-tamar.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- 1 Samuel 23:29
And David went up from there and lived in the strongholds of En-gedi.
- Joshua 3:16
the flowing water stood still. It backed up as far upstream as Adam, a city in the area of Zarethan, while the water flowing toward the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) was…
- Genesis 14:3
The latter five came as allies to the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea).
- Genesis 14:7
Through
1 Samuel 23:29And David went up from there and lived in the strongholds of En-gedi.
it leads to
- Song of Solomon 1:14
My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms in the vineyards of En-gedi.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- 2 Chronicles 20:2
Then some men came and told Jehoshaphat, “A vast army is coming against you from Edom, from beyond the Sea; they are already in Hazazon-tamar” (that is, En-gedi).
- Ezekiel 47:10
Fishermen will stand by the shore; from En-gedi to En-eglaim they will spread their nets to catch fish of many kinds, like the fish of the Great Sea.
- 1 Samuel 24:1
After Saul had returned from pursuing the Philistines, he was told, “David is in the wilderness of En-gedi.”
- Song of Solomon 1:14
Where this verse is studied
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Who and where
1 name in this verse with a page on the site.
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; 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.