And Jehud, and Bene–berak, and Gath–rimmon,
and Jehud, and Bene-berak, and Gath-rimmon,
and Jehud, and Bene-Barak, and Gath-Rimmon,
and Jehud, and Beneberak, and Gath-Rimmon,
Joshua — The entry narrative — Israel crosses the Jordan, takes the Land through three conquest campaigns, and renews covenant at Shechem. The hinge between Torah's promises and the historical record of those promises unfolding.
Voices1
And Jehud,.... Of Jehud no mention is made elsewhere: and Beneberak signifies sons of lightning; see Mar 3:17. Jerom (x) speaks of tills as the name of two places, Bane in the tribe of Dan, and Barach in the same tribe, and which was in his day near Azotus. This place was famous in later times among the Jews for being a place where one of their noted Rabbins, R.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk3
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Joshua 21:24Aijalon, and Gath-rimmon—four cities, together with their pasturelands.
leads to
Aijalon, and Gath-rimmon, together with their pasturelands.
On the day that the LORD gave the Amorites over to the Israelites, Joshua spoke to the LORD in the presence of Israel: “O sun, stand still over Gibeon, O moon, over the Valley…
Shaalabbin, Aijalon, Ithlah,
The whole web at once: see the Arc.
The verses this one reaches1
Aijalon, and Gath-rimmon—four cities, together with their pasturelands.
