Joshua 19:38
in Joshua 19Iron, Migdal-el, Horem, Beth-anath, and Beth-shemesh. There were nineteen cities, along with their villages.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
and Iron, and Migdal-el, Horem, and Beth-anath, and Beth-shemesh; nineteen cities with their villages.
KJV
And Iron, and Migdal–el, Horem, and Beth–anath, and Beth–shemesh; nineteen cities with their villages.
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This verse in Joshua 19
Commentary
4 notes on this verseNineteen cities - But if these cities be separately enumerated they amount to twenty-three; this is probably occasioned by reckoning frontier cities belonging to other tribes, which are only mentioned here as the boundaries of the tribe. See on Jos 19:30 (note).
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
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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
12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְיִרְאוֹן֙ | veyiron | and Yiron | H3375 → | |
| וּמִגְדַּל־ | umigdal- | and Migdal | H4027 → | |
| אֵ֔ל | ʾel | El | H4027 → | |
| חֳרֵ֥ם | chorem | Horem | H2765 → | |
| וּבֵית־ | uveit- | and Beth | H1043 → | |
| עֲנָ֖ת | ʾanat | Anath | H1043 → | |
| וּבֵ֣ית | uveit | and Beth | H1053 → | 42 times |
| שָׁ֑מֶשׁ | shamesh | Shemesh | H1053 → | 42 times |
| עָרִ֥ים | ʾarim | cities | H5892 → | 1090 times |
| תְּשַֽׁע־ | tesha'- | nine- | H8672 → | 58 times |
| עֶשְׂרֵ֖ה | ʾesreh | teen | H6240 → | 338 times |
| וְחַצְרֵיהֶֽן׃ | vechatzreihen | and villages their | H2691 → | 191 times |
וְיִרְאוֹן֙and Yiron
veyironH3375 →
וּמִגְדַּל־and Migdal
umigdal-H4027 →
אֵ֔לEl
ʾelH4027 →
חֳרֵ֥םHorem
choremH2765 →
וּבֵית־and Beth
uveit-H1043 →
עֲנָ֖תAnath
ʾanatH1043 →
וּבֵ֣יתand Beth
uveitH1053 →42 times
שָׁ֑מֶשׁShemesh
shameshH1053 →42 times
עָרִ֥יםcities
ʾarimH5892 →1090 times
תְּשַֽׁע־nine-
tesha'-H8672 →58 times
עֶשְׂרֵ֖הteen
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.
About Joshua
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; 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.