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Joshua 19:11

in Joshua 19

The border of their inheritance stretched as far as Sarid. It went up westward to Maralah, reached Dabbesheth, and met the brook east of Jokneam.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

and their border went up westward, even to Maralah, and reached to Dabbesheth; and it reached to the brook that is before Jokneam;

KJV

And their border went up toward the sea, and Maralah, and reached to Dabbasheth, and reached to the river that is before Jokneam;

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This verse in Joshua 19

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Toward the sea - The lot of this tribe was washed by the midland sea on the west, and by the sea of Tiberias on the east, answering Jacob's prophecy, Zebulun shall be an haven of ships; trading ships on the great sea, and fishing ships on the sea of Galilee.

This site's exposition

the third lot came up

on Joshua 19:10-16

Zebulun is drawn before Issachar although Issachar is the elder brother, and Jacob names the two in that same reversed order at Genesis 49:13-14. Gath-hepher at verse 13 is the home town of Jonah the son of Amittai, named as such at 2 Kings 14:25, so a boundary list fixes where a prophet came from. The Bethlehem of verse 15 sits in Galilee and is a different town from the Bethlehem of Judah at Micah 5:2, which is why the older commentators mark it every time. Nahallal in the same verse returns at Judges 1:30 as Nahalol, among the places Zebulun never cleared of Canaanites.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And their border went up toward the sea,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

Although they do not seem at first to have touched on the western shore--a part of Manasseh running north into Asher (Jos 17:10) --they afterwards did, according to the prediction of Moses (De 33:19). The extent from north to south cannot be very exactly traced; the sites of many of the places through which the boundary line is drawn being unknown.

The words behind it

13 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.

  • וְעָלָ֨הand it goes up

    vealahH5927 →890 times

  • גְבוּלָ֧ם׀border their

    gevulamH1366 →240 times

  • לַיָּ֛מָּהto the west <towards>

    laiyamahH3220 →396 times

  • וּמַרְעֲלָ֖הand Maralah

    umaralahH4831 →

  • וּפָגַ֣עand it touches

    ufaga'H6293 →46 times

  • בְּדַבָּ֑שֶׁת<on> Dabbesheth

    bedabashetH1708 →

  • וּפָגַע֙and it touches

    ufaga'H6293 →46 times

  • אֶל־<to>

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • הַנַּ֔חַלthe wadi

    hanachalH5158 →141 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֖רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • עַל־[is] on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • פְּנֵ֥י[the] face of

    peneiH6440 →2123 times

  • יָקְנְעָֽם׃Jokneam

    yakeneamH3362 →4 times

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

Related verses

5 in all, six open

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

    1 Kings 4:12

    Baana son of Ahilud in Taanach, in Megiddo, and in all of Beth-shean next to Zarethan below Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah and on past Jokmeam;

    it leads to

    • Joshua 17:11

      Within Issachar and Asher, Manasseh was assigned Beth-shean, Ibleam, Dor (that is, Naphath), Endor, Taanach, and Megiddo, each with their surrounding settlements.

    • 1 Kings 19:16

      You are also to anoint Jehu son of Nimshi as king over Israel and Elisha son of Shaphat from Abel-meholah to succeed you as prophet.

    • 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…

    • Judges 5:19

      Kings came and fought; then the kings of Canaan fought at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo, but they took no plunder of silver.

    • 1 Chronicles 6:68

      Jokmeam, Beth-horon,

  • Through

    Joshua 12:22

    the king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam in Carmel, one;

    it leads to

    • Joshua 19:37

      Kedesh, Edrei, En-hazor,

    • Joshua 21:32

      And from the tribe of Naphtali they were given Kedesh in Galilee (a city of refuge for the manslayer), Hammoth-dor, and Kartan—three cities, together with their pasturelands.

    • 1 Samuel 25:2

      Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. He was a very wealthy man with a thousand goats and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing in Carmel.

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; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament.

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