Joshua 19:20
in Joshua 19Rabbith, Kishion, Ebez,
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
and Rabbith, and Kishion, and Ebez,
KJV
And Rabbith, and Kishion, and Abez,
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This verse in Joshua 19
Commentary
3 notes on this verseAnd Rabbith,.... The first of these Jerom calls (a) Rabboth in the tribe of Issachar: and Kishion, as Masius notes, seems to given name to the river Kishon near it; some take it to be the same with Kedesh, 1Ch 6:72, and Abez, of which no mention is made elsewhere. (a) De loc. Heb. fol. 94. B.
This site's exposition
the fourth lot came out
on Joshua 19:17-23
Issachar is given by its towns rather than by a traced border, because the tribe sits enclosed between portions already described. Jezreel at verse 18 becomes the second royal city of Israel and the ground of Naboth's vineyard at 1 Kings 21:1. Shunem in the same verse is where the Philistines pitch their camp before Saul's last night at 1 Samuel 28:4, and where the woman who kept a room for Elisha lived at 2 Kings 4:8. Mount Gilboa, where Saul falls, rises on the southern edge of the same plain.
The record, by era
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
the fourth lot came out to Issachar--Instead of describing the boundaries of this tribe, the inspired historian gives a list of its principal cities. These cities are all in the eastern part of the plain of Esdraelon.
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The words behind it
3 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.
About Joshua
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament.