Joshua 19:15
in Joshua 19It also included Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem. There were twelve cities, along with their villages.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
and Kattath, and Nahalal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Bethlehem: twelve cities with their villages.
KJV
And Kattath, and Nahallal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Beth–lehem: twelve cities with their villages.
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This verse in Joshua 19
Commentary
6 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
Twelve cities - Only five have been mentioned, and the names in the verses preceding are apparently not names of Zebulonite cities, but merely of points in or near the boundary line. It would therefore appear that seven names have disappeared from the text, and perhaps also the definition of the western frontier.
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 Awakening2 voices
Beth-lehem - Not that where Christ was born, which was in Judah, but another. Twelve cities - There are more numbered here, but the rest either were not cities properly so called, or were not within this tribe, but only bordering upon it, and belonging to other tribes.
And Kattath, and Nahallal,....
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
Shimron - See on Jos 12:20 (note). Beth-lehem - The house of bread; a different place from that in which our Lord was born.
Shimron - See on Jos 12:20 (note). Beth-lehem - The house of bread; a different place from that in which our Lord was born.
The words behind it
10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְקַטָּ֤ת | vekatat | and Kattah | H7005 → | |
| וְנַֽהֲלָל֙ | venahalal | and Nahalal | H5096 → | |
| וְשִׁמְר֔וֹן | veshimron | and Shimron | H8110 → | |
| וְיִדְאֲלָ֖ה | veyidalah | and Idalah | H3030 → | |
| וּבֵ֣ית | uveit | and Beth- | H1035 → | |
| לָ֑חֶם | lachem | -lehem | H1035 → | |
| עָרִ֥ים | ʾarim | cities | H5892 → | 1090 times |
| שְׁתֵּים־ | sheteim- | two [plus] | H8147 → | 768 times |
| עֶשְׂרֵ֖ה | ʾesreh | ten | H6240 → | 338 times |
| וְחַצְרֵיהֶֽן׃ | vechatzreihen | and villages their | H2691 → | 191 times |
וְקַטָּ֤תand Kattah
vekatatH7005 →
וְנַֽהֲלָל֙and Nahalal
venahalalH5096 →
וְשִׁמְר֔וֹןand Shimron
veshimronH8110 →
וְיִדְאֲלָ֖הand Idalah
veyidalahH3030 →
וּבֵ֣יתand Beth-
uveitH1035 →
לָ֑חֶם-lehem
lachemH1035 →
עָרִ֥יםcities
ʾarimH5892 →1090 times
שְׁתֵּים־two [plus]
sheteim-H8147 →768 times
עֶשְׂרֵ֖הten
ʾesrehH6240 →338 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
Ruth 1:19So Naomi and Ruth traveled until they came to Bethlehem. When they entered Bethlehem, the whole city was stirred because of them, and the women of the city exclaimed, “Can this be Naomi?”
it leads to
- Matthew 21:10
When Jesus had entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred and asked, “Who is this?”
- Isaiah 23:7
Is this your jubilant city, whose origin is from antiquity, whose feet have taken her to settle far away?
- Lamentations 2:15
All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the…
- Matthew 21:10
Through
Joshua 11:1Now when Jabin king of Hazor heard about these things, he sent word to Jobab king of Madon; to the kings of Shimron and Achshaph;
it leads to
- Joshua 11:10
At that time Joshua turned back and captured Hazor and put its king to the sword, because Hazor was formerly the head of all these kingdoms.
- Joshua 10:3–4
Therefore Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem sent word to Hoham king of Hebron, Piram king of Jarmuth, Japhia king of Lachish, and Debir king of Eglon, saying,
- Judges 4:2
So the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his forces was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth-hagoyim.
- Psalms 2:1–4
Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
- Isaiah 43:5–7
Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bring your offspring from the east and gather you from the west.
- Joshua 11:10
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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; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament.