Joshua 19:35
in Joshua 19The fortified cities were Ziddim, Zer, Hammath, Rakkath, Chinnereth,
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And the fortified cities were Ziddim, Zer, and Hammath, Rakkath, and Chinnereth,
KJV
And the fenced cities are Ziddim, Zer, and Hammath, Rakkath, and Chinnereth,
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This verse in Joshua 19
Commentary
4 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
The number of the fortified cities of Naphtali is remarkable, though it does not tally with the catalogue. It was no doubt good policy to protect the northern frontier by a belt of fortresses, as the south was protected by the fenced cities of Judah. Hammath, a Levitical city (compare Jos 21:32; 1Ch 6:76), is not to be confounded with the Hamath on the northeastern frontier of the land Num 13:21. The name (from a root signifying “to be warm”) probably indicates that hot springs existed here; and is perhaps rightly traced in Ammaus, near Tiberias.
This site's exposition
The sixth lot came out
on Joshua 19:32-39
Hazor at verse 36 was the head of the northern kingdoms and was burned at 11:10-11, and it appears here as an ordinary town of the inheritance, while a king of Hazor is oppressing Israel again by Judges 4:2. Kedesh at verse 37 is set apart as a city of refuge at 20:7 and is where Deborah sends for Barak at Judges 4:6. Judges 1:33 names Beth-shemesh and Beth-anath as towns Naphtali never cleared, and both of them close this list at verse 38. Isaiah 9:1 speaks over the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, the two portions given in this chapter, and Matthew 4:15 quotes that verse of Christ settling in Capernaum.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
And the fenced cities are Ziddim,....
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
the sixth lot came out to the children of Naphtali--Although the cities mentioned have not been discovered, it is evident, from Zaanannim, which is by Kedesh, that is, on the northwest of Lake Merom (Jud 4:11), that the boundary described (Jos 19:34) ran from the southwest towards the northeast, up to the sources of the Jordan.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְעָרֵ֖י | vearei | and [the] cities of | H5892 → | 1090 times |
| מִבְצָ֑ר | mivtzar | fortification | H4013 → | 37 times |
| הַצִּדִּ֣ים | hatzidim | [are] <the> Ziddim | H6661 → | |
| צֵ֔ר | tzer | Zer | H6863 → | |
| וְחַמַּ֖ת | vechamat | and Hammath | H2575 → | |
| רַקַּ֥ת | rakat | Rakkath | H7557 → | |
| וְכִנָּֽרֶת׃ | vekhinaret | and Kinnereth | H3672 → | 7 times |
וְעָרֵ֖יand [the] cities of
veareiH5892 →1090 times
מִבְצָ֑רfortification
mivtzarH4013 →37 times
הַצִּדִּ֣ים[are] <the> Ziddim
hatzidimH6661 →
צֵ֔רZer
tzerH6863 →
וְחַמַּ֖תand Hammath
vechamatH2575 →
רַקַּ֥תRakkath
rakatH7557 →
וְכִנָּֽרֶת׃and Kinnereth
vekhinaretH3672 →7 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
1 Kings 8:65So at that time Solomon and all Israel with him—a great assembly of people from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt—kept the feast before the LORD our God for seven days and seven more…
it leads to
- Numbers 34:8
and from Mount Hor to Lebo-hamath, then extend to Zedad,
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Numbers 34:5
where it will turn from Azmon, join the Brook of Egypt, and end at the Sea.
- 1 Kings 8:2
And all the men of Israel came together to King Solomon at the feast in the seventh month, the month of Ethanim.
- Numbers 34:8
Through
Joshua 11:2to the kings of the north in the mountains, in the Arabah south of Chinnereth, in the foothills, and in Naphoth-dor to the west;
it leads to
- Numbers 34:11
then go down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain and continue along the slopes east of the Sea of Chinnereth.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Judges 1:27
At that time Manasseh failed to drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shean, Taanach, Dor, Ibleam, Megiddo, and their villages; for the Canaanites were determined to dwell in that land.
- Numbers 34:11
Through
Numbers 13:21So they went up and spied out the land from the Wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, toward Lebo-hamath.
it leads to
- Numbers 20:1
In the first month, the whole congregation of Israel entered the Wilderness of Zin and stayed in Kadesh. There Miriam died and was buried.
- Numbers 33:36
They set out from Ezion-geber and camped at Kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin.
- Numbers 27:14
for when the congregation contended in the Wilderness of Zin, both of you rebelled against My command to show My holiness in their sight regarding the waters.” Those were the waters of Meribah in…
- Numbers 20:1
About Joshua
This page draws on 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; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Joshua, Judges, Ruth.