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Joshua 19:12

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From Sarid it turned eastward along the border of Chisloth-tabor and went on to Daberath and up to Japhia.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

and it turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrising unto the border of Chisloth-tabor; and it went out to Daberath, and went up to Japhia;

KJV

And turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrising unto the border of Chisloth–tabor, and then goeth out to Daberath, and goeth up to Japhia,

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This verse in Joshua 19

Commentary

3 notes on this verse
And turned from Sarid eastward,.... This describes the southern border, going on from west to east: towards the sunrising, unto the border of Chislothtabor; this Jerom places in the tribe of Issachar, it bordered on both tribes; and he says (l), that in his time there was a little village called Chaselus, eight miles from Diocaesarea, at the foot of Mount Tabor in the plains: and then goeth out to Daberath; which also was a city in the tribe of Issachar, given to the Levites, Jos 21:

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 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.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

East of Gitoh-cheifer. To the east of Gat-hacheifer which is the name of the city of [the prophet] Yonah ben Amtai.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on Joshua 19:13:1, via Sefaria, The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 6 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

14 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.

  • וְשָׁ֣בand it turns back

    veshavH7725 →1056 times

  • מִשָּׂרִ֗ידfrom Sarid

    misaridH8301 →

  • קֵ֚דְמָהeast -ward

    kedemahH6924 →87 times

  • מִזְרַ֣ח[the] rising of

    mizrachH4217 →74 times

  • הַשֶּׁ֔מֶשׁthe sun

    hashemeshH8121 →134 times

  • עַל־to

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • גְּב֥וּל[the] border of

    gevulH1366 →240 times

  • כִּסְלֹ֖תKisloth

    kislotH3696 →

  • תָּבֹ֑רTabor

    tavorH3696 →

  • וְיָצָ֥אand it goes out

    veyatza'H3318 →1067 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • הַדָּֽבְרַ֖ת<the> Daberath

    hadaveratH1705 →

  • וְעָלָ֥הand it goes up

    vealahH5927 →890 times

  • יָפִֽיעַ׃Japhia

    yafia'H3309 →

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

Related verses

8 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.

Judges 4:12When Sisera was told that Barak son of Abinoam had gone up Mount Tabor,3 worksJoshua 19:22The border reached Tabor, Shahazumah, and Beth-shemesh, and ended at the Jordan. There were sixteen cities, along with their villages.2 works1 Chronicles 6:72From the tribe of Issachar they were given Kedesh, Daberath,2 worksPsalms 89:12North and south You created; Tabor and Hermon shout for joy at Your name.2 worksJudges 4:6She summoned Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali and said to him, “Surely the LORD, the God of Israel, is commanding you: ‘Go and march to Mount Tabor, taking with you ten thousand men of Naphtali and Zebulun.2 worksJoshua 21:28From the tribe of Issachar they were given Kishion, Daberath,2 works
The other 2 cross-references, with their words ▾
1 Samuel 10:3Then you will go on from there until you come to the Oak of Tabor. Three men going up to God at Bethel will meet you there, one carrying three young goats, another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a skin of wine.2 worksJoshua 19:34Then the border turned westward to Aznoth-tabor and ran from there to Hukkok, touching Zebulun on the south side, Asher on the west, and Judah at the Jordan on the east.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

    Judges 4:6

    She summoned Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali and said to him, “Surely the LORD, the God of Israel, is commanding you: ‘Go and march to Mount Tabor, taking with you ten…

    it leads to

    • Joshua 19:37

      Kedesh, Edrei, En-hazor,

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 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.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Acts 13:47

      For this is what the Lord has commanded us: ‘I have made you a light for the Gentiles, to bring salvation to the ends of the earth.’”

    • Hebrews 11:32

      And what more shall I say? Time will not allow me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets,

    • Judges 8:18

      Next, Gideon asked Zebah and Zalmunna, “What kind of men did you kill at Tabor?” “Men like you,” they answered, “each one resembling the son of a king.”

  • Through

    Joshua 19:22

    The border reached Tabor, Shahazumah, and Beth-shemesh, and ended at the Jordan. There were sixteen cities, along with their villages.

    it leads to

    • Judges 4:6

      She summoned Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali and said to him, “Surely the LORD, the God of Israel, is commanding you: ‘Go and march to Mount Tabor, taking with you ten…

  • Through

    Psalms 89:12

    North and south You created; Tabor and Hermon shout for joy at Your name.

    it leads to

    • Joshua 12:1

      Now these are the kings of the land whom the Israelites struck down and whose lands they took beyond the Jordan to the east, from the Arnon Valley to Mount Hermon, including all the…

    • Job 26:7

      He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth upon nothing.

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 and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).

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