Joshua 15:22
in Joshua 15Kabzeel, Eder, Jagur, Kinah, Dimonah, Adadah,
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
and Kinah, and Dimonah, and Adadah,
KJV
And Kinah, and Dimonah, and Adadah,
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This verse in Joshua 15
Commentary
4 notes on this verseAnd Kinah,.... Of this city we read of nowhere else: and Dimonah; the second city is thought to be the same with Dibon, Neh 11:25; and Jerom (b) observes, that a place elsewhere was indifferently called in his time Dibon and Dimon; and Adadah; the last of these cities is nowhere met with. (b) Comment. in Esaiam, c. 15. 9.
This site's exposition
This is the inheritance of the clans of the tribe of Judah
on Joshua 15:20-32
The cities are grouped by region, and this run covers the dry south toward Edom. A list like this is a legal record of title, which is why later books can argue from it. Beersheba stands in the middle of it at verse 28, already old by Genesis 21:31.
This site's exposition
Kinah, Dimonah, Adadah
The first run of names lies along the Edomite frontier named in verse 21. Gill takes Dimonah to be the Dibon where men of Judah lived after the exile, at Nehemiah 11:25, and finds Kinah and Adadah nowhere else. Many names in this district occur only here.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
And when this was done there was a more equal dividend (either in quantity or quality) of the remainder among the seven tribes. And this, probably, was intended in that general rule which was given concerning this partition ( Num. xxxiii.
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The words behind it
3 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.
Where this verse is studied
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About Joshua
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Joshua, Judges, Ruth; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and The Berean Standard Bible, Joshua 15, with the verses cited in the note.