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Joshua 19:4

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Eltolad, Bethul, Hormah,

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

and Eltolad, and Bethul, and Hormah,

KJV

And Eltolad, and Bethul, and Hormah,

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This verse in Joshua 19

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

the second lot came forth

on Joshua 19:1-9

Simeon draws second and receives no territory of its own, only towns cut out of Judah, and verse 9 gives the reason plainly, that Judah's part was too much for them. Genesis 49:7 said of Simeon and Levi that God would divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel, and both sentences come due in this book: Levi takes cities among all the tribes in chapter 21, and Simeon takes towns inside another tribe here. Moses blesses every tribe by name in Deuteronomy 33 and Simeon is the one name absent from that chapter. Ziklag stands at verse 5 and is already listed to Judah at 15:31, and Achish hands it to David at 1 Samuel 27:6.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And Eltolad, and Bethul, and Hormah. These were all cities of Judah, Jos 15:30; Eltolad is the same with Tolad, and Bethul with Bethuel, 1Ch 4:29, and with Chesil, Jos 15:30, mentioned there along with Hormah; See Gill on Jos 15:30.

The words behind it

3 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • וְאֶלְתּוֹלַ֥דand Eltolad

    veeltoladH513 →

  • וּבְת֖וּלand Bethul

    uvetulH1329 →

  • וְחָרְמָֽה׃and Hormah

    vecharemahH2767 →9 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

4 in all, six open

The walk

6 stops

Each 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

    Judges 1:17

    Then the men of Judah went with their brothers the Simeonites, attacked the Canaanites living in Zephath, and devoted the city to destruction. So it was called Hormah.

    it leads to

    • Numbers 21:3

      And the LORD heard Israel’s plea and delivered up the Canaanites. Israel devoted them and their cities to destruction; so they named the place Hormah.

    • Numbers 14:45

      Then the Amalekites and Canaanites who lived in that part of the hill country came down, attacked them, and routed them all the way to Hormah.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Judges 1:3

      Then the men of Judah said to their brothers the Simeonites, “Come up with us to our allotted territory, and let us fight against the Canaanites. And we likewise will go with you to…

    • 2 Chronicles 14:10

      So Asa marched out against him and lined up in battle formation in the Valley of Zephathah near Mareshah.

  • Through

    Joshua 15:30

    Eltolad, Chesil, Hormah,

    it leads to

    • Judges 1:17

      Then the men of Judah went with their brothers the Simeonites, attacked the Canaanites living in Zephath, and devoted the city to destruction. So it was called Hormah.

    • Deuteronomy 1:44

      Then the Amorites who lived in the hills came out against you and chased you like a swarm of bees. They routed you from Seir all the way to Hormah.

About Joshua

The Walls of Jericho Fall Down, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Walls of Jericho Fall Down, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on 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.

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