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Joshua 15:27

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Hazar-gaddah, Heshmon, Beth-pelet,

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

and Hazar-gaddah, and Heshmon, and Beth-pelet,

KJV

And Hazar–gaddah, and Heshmon, and Beth–palet,

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This verse in Joshua 15

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
And Hazargaddah,.... The first of these, it is probable, is the same, Jerom (g) calls Gadda, in the tribe of Judah, which was in his day a village in the extreme borders of Daroma to the east, hanging over the dead sea: and Heshmon is met with nowhere else: and Bethpalet is in Neh 11:26, where it is called Bethphelet. (g) Ut supra, (De loc. Heb.) fol. 92. B.

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

Hazar-gaddah, Heshmon, Beth-pelet

Gill follows Jerome in placing Hazar-gaddah on the far eastern edge of the southern district, above the Salt Sea. Beth-pelet returns at Nehemiah 11:26 as a place resettled by Judah after the exile. Heshmon is known only from this verse.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

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

5 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.

Related verses

1 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Nehemiah 11:26in Jeshua, Moladah, and Beth-pelet;2 works

The walk

2 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

    Nehemiah 11:26

    in Jeshua, Moladah, and Beth-pelet;

    it leads to

    • Joshua 19:2

      Their inheritance lay within the territory of Judah and included Beersheba (or Sheba), Moladah,

    • Joshua 15:26–27

      Amam, Shema, Moladah,

Where this verse is studied

About Joshua

Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon, John Martin, 1816, National Gallery of Art. Public domain.
Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon, John Martin, 1816, National Gallery of Art. Public domain.
Joshua: the study guide →Read Joshua 15 →

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.

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