And Beth–lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities and their villages:
and Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities with their villages:
and Beth-Lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities and their villages.
and Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen: thirteen cities and their hamlets;
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.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
Voices1
And Bethlebaoth, and Sharuhen,.... Whether the first is the same with Lebaoth, a city of Judah, Jos 15:32; and with the Bethleptepha of Josephus (b), and the Betholene of Pliny (c), is not certain: in this place secret to have been an idol temple of the Canaanites, dedicated to lions, as in Egypt there was a city called Leontopolis, from whence was the Leontopolitan nome, the inhabitants of which worshipped lions (d); and the Egyptians had temples dedicated to them, as Aelianus (e) relates.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
The verses this one reaches1
Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, and Rimmon—twenty-nine cities in all, along with their villages.
The walk2
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 15:32Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, and Rimmon—twenty-nine cities in all, along with their villages.
leads to
then go down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain and continue along the slopes east of the Sea of Chinnereth.
in En-rimmon, Zorah, Jarmuth,
The whole web at once: see the Arc.
