Joshua 19:30
in Joshua 19Ummah, Aphek, and Rehob. There were twenty-two cities, along with their villages.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty and two cities with their villages.
KJV
Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty and two cities with their villages.
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This verse in Joshua 19
Commentary
5 notes on this verseTwenty and two cities - There are nearly thirty cities in the above enumeration instead of twenty-two, but probably several are mentioned that were but frontier towns, and that did not belong to this tribe, their border only passing by such cities; and on this account, though they are named, yet they do not enter into the enumeration in this place. Perhaps some of the villages are named as well as the cities.
This site's exposition
the fifth lot came out
on Joshua 19:24-31
Asher's border runs north past Carmel to great Zidon and to the strong city Tyre, ground Israel never held. Judges 1:31 lists Accho, Zidon, Ahlab, Achzib, Helbah, Aphik and Rehob as places Asher did not drive out, and four of those names stand in this allotment: Zidon at verse 28, Rehob at verses 28 and 30, Achzib at verse 29 and Aphek at verse 30. Both accounts stand as written, and the same book that says at 21:45 that nothing failed says at 13:1 that much land remained to be possessed. Keil and Delitzsch read Joshua as the record of land granted rather than land occupied, and Matthew Henry lays the shortfall on Israel's own slackness rather than on the promise.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
) was the place near which Benhadad was beaten by Ahad, 1 Kings xx. But close adjoining to this tribe were the celebrated sea-port towns of Tyre and Sidon, which we read so much of. Tyre is called here that strong city (
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Ummah also,.... Ummah is not mentioned any where else: and Aphek; of which; see Gill on Jos 12:18, and Rehob; of which; see Gill on Jos 19:28, twenty and two cities with their villages: there are more set down in the account, but some of them did not belong to the tribe, only were on the border of it.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
the fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher--The western boundary is traced from north to south through the cities mentioned; the site of them, however, is unknown.
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How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
Fortified city of the Rock. Cities of fortress, cities of might.
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
7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְעֻמָ֥ה | veumah | and Umah | H5981 → | |
| וַאֲפֵ֖ק | vaafek | and Aphek | H663 → | 9 times |
| וּרְחֹ֑ב | urecho | and Rehob | H7340 → | 10 times |
| עָרִ֛ים | ʾarim | cities | H5892 → | 1090 times |
| עֶשְׂרִ֥ים | ʾesrim | twenty | H6242 → | |
| וּשְׁתַּ֖יִם | ushetayim | and two | H8147 → | 768 times |
| וְחַצְרֵיהֶֽן׃ | vechatzreihen | and villages their | H2691 → | 191 times |
וְעֻמָ֥הand Umah
veumahH5981 →
וַאֲפֵ֖קand Aphek
vaafekH663 →9 times
וּרְחֹ֑בand Rehob
urechoH7340 →10 times
עָרִ֛יםcities
ʾarimH5892 →1090 times
עֶשְׂרִ֥יםtwenty
ʾesrimH6242 →
וּשְׁתַּ֖יִםand two
ushetayimH8147 →768 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
Joshua 13:4to the south, all the land of the Canaanites, from Mearah of the Sidonians to Aphek, as far as the border of the Amorites;
it leads to
- 1 Samuel 4:1
Thus the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now the Israelites went out to meet the Philistines in battle and camped at Ebenezer, while the Philistines camped at Aphek.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Joshua 12:18
the king of Aphek, one; the king of Lasharon, one;
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Judges 1:34–36
The Amorites forced the Danites into the hill country and did not allow them to come down into the plain.
- 1 Samuel 4:1
Through
1 Samuel 4:1Thus the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now the Israelites went out to meet the Philistines in battle and camped at Ebenezer, while the Philistines camped at Aphek.
it leads to
- 1 Samuel 29:1
Now the Philistines brought all their forces together at Aphek, while Israel camped by the spring in Jezreel.
- 1 Samuel 5:1
After the Philistines had captured the ark of God, they took it from Ebenezer to Ashdod,
- 1 Samuel 7:12
Afterward, Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer, saying, “Thus far the LORD has helped us.”
- 1 Samuel 29:1
Through
Joshua 12:18the king of Aphek, one; the king of Lasharon, one;
it leads to
- Joshua 13:4
to the south, all the land of the Canaanites, from Mearah of the Sidonians to Aphek, as far as the border of the Amorites;
- Isaiah 33:9
The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is ashamed and decayed. Sharon is like a desert; Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves.
- Joshua 13:4
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); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Joshua, Judges, Ruth and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.