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Joshua 17:7

in Joshua 17

Now the border of Manasseh went from Asher to Michmethath near Shechem, then southward to include the inhabitants of En-tappuah.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the border of Manasseh was from Asher to Michmethath, which is before Shechem; and the border went along to the right hand, unto the inhabitants of En-tappuah.

KJV

And the coast of Manasseh was from Asher to Michmethah, that lieth before Shechem; and the border went along on the right hand unto the inhabitants of En–tappuah.

This verse in Joshua 17

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
Asher - Not the tribe so called, but a place somewhere toward the eastern end of the boundary line here drawn: perhaps “Teyasir,” on the road from Sichem to Beth-shean.

This site's exposition

the border of Manasseh went from Asher to Michmethath

on Joshua 17:7-11

Each son of Joseph holds towns inside the other's line, Ephraim within Manasseh at 16:9 and Manasseh six towns inside Issachar and Asher here. All six have later history: the kings of Canaan fight at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo at Judges 5:19, and Saul finds a medium at Endor at 1 Samuel 28:7. The Philistines hang Saul's body on the wall of Beth-shan at 1 Samuel 31:10.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And the coast of Manasseh was from Asher,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

the coast of Manasseh was from Asher to Michmethah--The southern boundary is here traced from the east. Asher (now Yasir), the starting point, was a town fifteen Roman miles east of Shechem, and anciently a place of importance.

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The words behind it

17 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.

  • וַיְהִ֤יand it was

    vayhiH1961 →3559 times

  • גְבוּל־[the] border of

    gevul-H1366 →240 times

  • מְנַשֶּׁה֙Manasseh

    menashehH4519 →146 times

  • מֵֽאָשֵׁ֔רfrom Asher

    measherH836 →43 times

  • הַֽמִּכְמְתָ֔ת<the> Micmethath

    hamikhmetatH4366 →

  • אֲשֶׁ֖רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • עַל־[is] on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • פְּנֵ֣י[the] face of

    peneiH6440 →2123 times

  • שְׁכֶ֑םShechem

    shekhemH7927 →63 times

  • וְהָלַ֤ךְand it goes

    vehalakhH1980 →1546 times

  • הַגְּבוּל֙the border

    hagevulH1366 →240 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • הַיָּמִ֔יןthe south

    haiyaminH3225 →140 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • יֹשְׁבֵ֖י[the] inhabitants of

    yosheveiH3427 →1079 times

  • עֵ֥יןEn

    ʾeinH5887 →

  • תַּפּֽוּחַ׃Tappuah

    tapuachH5887 →

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

    Joshua 24:32

    And the bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought up out of Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the plot of land that Jacob had purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father,…

    it leads to

    • Genesis 50:25

      And Joseph made the sons of Israel take an oath and said, “God will surely attend to you, and then you must carry my bones up from this place.”

    • Genesis 33:19

      And the plot of ground where he pitched his tent, he purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver.

    • Exodus 13:19

      Moses took the bones of Joseph with him because Joseph had made the sons of Israel swear a solemn oath when he said, “God will surely attend to you, and then you must carry…

    • Acts 7:16

      Their bones were carried back to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought from the sons of Hamor at Shechem for a price he paid in silver.

  • Through

    Joshua 24:1

    Then Joshua assembled all the tribes of Israel at Shechem. He summoned the elders, leaders, judges, and officers of Israel, and they presented themselves before God.

    it leads to

    • Joshua 23:2

      he summoned all Israel, including its elders, leaders, judges, and officers. “I am old and well along in years,” he said,

    • 1 Samuel 10:19

      But today you have rejected your God, who saves you from all your troubles and afflictions, and you have said to Him, ‘No, set a king over us.’ Now therefore present yourselves before the…

    • 1 Kings 12:1

      Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone there to make him king.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

  • Through

    Joshua 21:21

    From the tribe of Ephraim they were given Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim (a city of refuge for the manslayer), Gezer,

    it leads to

    • Joshua 20:7

      So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.

About Joshua

This page draws on 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; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Joshua, Judges, Ruth.