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Joshua 19:14

in Joshua 19

Then the border circled around the north side of Neah to Hannathon and ended at the Valley of Iphtah-el.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

and the border turned about it on the north to Hannathon; and the goings out thereof were at the valley of Iphtah-el;

KJV

And the border compasseth it on the north side to Hannathon: and the outgoings thereof are in the valley of Jiphthah–el:

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This verse in Joshua 19

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
Hannathon, more properly Channathon, has been supposed by some to be the Cana of Galilee of the New Testament, and Jiphthah-el is probably the present “Jefat”; the “Jotapata” of Roman times, which was so long and valiantly defended by Josephus against the legions of Vespasian. The “Valley” is the “Wady Abilin”; and Bethlehem Jos 19:15 is the present miserable village of “Beit-Lahin.”

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 the border compasseth it from the north side to Hannathon,.... This is the northern border of the tribe, which took a circuit from the last place to this; of which and the following place we have no account; Jerom only makes mention of them as in the tribe of Zebulun: and the outgoings thereof are in the valley of Jiphthahel; here the northern border ended, which, Masius conjectures, was part of the valley of Carmel.

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

10 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.

  • וְנָסַ֤בand it turns

    venasavH5437 →161 times

  • אֹתוֹ֙<obj.> itself

    ʾotoH853 →10935 times

  • הַגְּב֔וּלthe border

    hagevulH1366 →240 times

  • מִצְּפ֖וֹןfrom [the] north

    mitzefonH6828 →153 times

  • חַנָּתֹ֑ןHannathon

    chanatonH2615 →

  • וְהָיוּ֙and they are

    vehayuH1961 →3559 times

  • תֹּֽצְאֹתָ֔יוextremities its

    totzeotavH8444 →23 times

  • גֵּ֖י[the] valley of

    geiH1516 →59 times

  • יִפְתַּח־Iphtah

    yiftach-H3317 →4 times

  • אֵֽל׃El

    ʾelH3317 →4 times

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

About Joshua

The Walls of Jericho Fall Down, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Walls of Jericho Fall Down, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Joshua: the study guide →Read Joshua 19 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); 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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