Joshua 13:5 BSB — MannaFest

Joshua 13:5

the land of the Gebalites; and all Lebanon to the east, from Baal-gad below Mount Hermon to Lebo-hamath.

BSB

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ASV

and the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrising, from Baal-gad under mount Hermon unto the entrance of Hamath;

KJV

And the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrising, from Baal–gad under mount Hermon unto the entering into Hamath.

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Commentary

2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Giblites - The people of Gebal (“Jebail”, 22 miles north of Beyronut). They were “stone-squarers” 1Ki 5:18 and (ship) “caulkers” Eze 27:9.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Both included that portion of the country "from Sihor, which is before Egypt," a small brook near El-Arish, which on the east was the southern boundary of Canaan, to Ekron, the most northerly of the five chief lordships or principalities of the Philistines. 3, 4. also the Avites: From [on] the south--The two clauses are thus connected in the Septuagint and many other versions.

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְהָאָ֣רֶץ	ve.ha.'A.retz	and the land of	H776 →
הַגִּבְלִ֗י	ha.giv.Li	the Gebalite[s]	H1382 →
וְכָל־	ve.khol	and all	H3605 →
הַלְּבָנוֹן֙	ha.le.va.nOn	<the> Lebanon	H3844 →
מִזְרַ֣ח	miz.Rach	[the] rising of	H4217 →
הַשֶּׁ֔מֶשׁ	ha.She.mesh	the sun	H8121 →
מִבַּ֣עַל	mi.Ba.'al	from Baal	H1171 →
גָּ֔ד	Gad	Gad	H1171 →
תַּ֖חַת	Ta.chat	under	H8478 →
הַר־	har-	[the] mountain of	H2022 →
חֶרְמ֑וֹן	cher.Mon	Hermon	H2768 →
עַ֖ד	'ad	to	H5704 →
לְב֥וֹא	le.Vo'	Lebo	H935 →
חֲמָֽת׃	cha.Mat	Hamath	H2574 →

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 walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

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
1 Kings 5:18
So Solomon’s and Hiram’s builders, along with the Gebalites, quarried the stone and prepared the timber and stone for the construction of the temple.
leads to
- Ezekiel 27:9
  The elders of Gebal were aboard as shipwrights, repairing your leaks. All the ships of the sea and their sailors came alongside to barter for your merchandise.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Ezekiel 27:9
The elders of Gebal were aboard as shipwrights, repairing your leaks. All the ships of the sea and their sailors came alongside to barter for your merchandise.
leads to
- Psalms 83:7
  of Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, of Philistia with the people of Tyre.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 1 Kings 5:18
  So Solomon’s and Hiram’s builders, along with the Gebalites, quarried the stone and prepared the timber and stone for the construction of the temple.
Through
Joshua 12:7
And these are the kings of the land that Joshua and the Israelites conquered beyond the Jordan to the west, from Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir…
leads to
- Joshua 11:17
  from Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir, as far as Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon at the foot of Mount Hermon. He captured all their kings and struck them down, putting them to…
- Joshua 11:23
  So Joshua took the entire land, in keeping with all that the LORD had spoken to Moses. And Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to the allotments to their tribes. Then…
Through
Numbers 34:8
and from Mount Hor to Lebo-hamath, then extend to Zedad,
leads to
- Numbers 13:21
  So they went up and spied out the land from the Wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, toward Lebo-hamath.
- 2 Kings 14:25
  This Jeroboam restored the boundary of Israel from Lebo-hamath to the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word that the LORD, the God of Israel, had spoken through His servant Jonah son of…
Through
Psalms 83:7
of Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, of Philistia with the people of Tyre.
leads to
- Ezekiel 27:3
  Tell Tyre, who dwells at the gateway to the sea, merchant of the peoples on many coasts, that this is what the Lord GOD says: You have said, O Tyre, ‘I am perfect in…

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