Joshua 15:32 BSB — MannaFest

Joshua 15:32

Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, and Rimmon—twenty-nine cities in all, along with their villages.

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ASV

and Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the cities are twenty and nine, with their villages.

KJV

And Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the cities are twenty and nine, with their villages:

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Commentary

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John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

And Lebaoth,.... Whether Lebaoth is the same with Bethlebaoth, given to the tribe of Simeon, Jos 19:6; is not certain: and Shilhim is nowhere else spoken of: and Ain seems to be the same with that in Num 34:11; also See Gill on Num 34:11. and Rimmon, the place Jerom (e) calls Eremmon, which he says was a large village of the Jews, sixteen miles from Eleutheropolis to the south, in Daroma; this and the preceding are joined together as one, and called Enrimmon, Neh 11:

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

All the cities are twenty and nine, with their villages - But on a careful examination we shall find thirty-eight; but it is supposed that nine of these are excepted; viz., Beersheba, Moladah, Hazarshual, Baalah, Azem, Hormah, Ziklag, Ain, and Rimmon, which were afterwards given to the tribe of Simeon. This may appear satisfactory, but perhaps the truth will be found to be this: Several cities in the promised land are expressed by compound terms; not knowing the places, different translations combine what should be separated, and in many cases separate what should be combined.

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וּלְבָא֥וֹת	u.le.va.'ot	and Lebaoth	H3822 →
וְשִׁלְחִ֖ים	ve.shil.Chim	and Shilhim	H7978 →
וְעַ֣יִן	ve.'A.yin	and Ain	H5871 →
וְרִמּ֑וֹן	ve.ri.Mon	and Rimmon	H7417 →
כָּל־	kol-	all	H3605 →
עָרִ֛ים	'a.Rim	[the] cities	H5892 →
עֶשְׂרִ֥ים	'es.Rim	[were] twenty	H6242 →
וָתֵ֖שַׁע	va.Te.sha'	and nine	H8672 →
וְחַצְרֵיהֶֽן׃ ס	ve.chatz.rei.Hen	and villages their	H2691 →

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Through
Numbers 34:11
then go down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain and continue along the slopes east of the Sea of Chinnereth.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 3:17
  The Jordan River in the Arabah bordered it from Chinnereth to the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) with the slopes of Pisgah to the east.
- 2 Kings 23:33
  And Pharaoh Neco imprisoned Jehoahaz at Riblah in the land of Hamath so that he could not reign in Jerusalem, and he imposed on Judah a levy of a hundred talents of silver and…
- Joshua 11:2
  to the kings of the north in the mountains, in the Arabah south of Chinnereth, in the foothills, and in Naphoth-dor to the west;
- Joshua 19:35
  The fortified cities were Ziddim, Zer, Hammath, Rakkath, Chinnereth,
- Jeremiah 39:5–6
  But the army of the Chaldeans pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. They seized him and brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of…
Through
Nehemiah 11:29
in En-rimmon, Zorah, Jarmuth,
leads to
- Joshua 19:41
  The territory of their inheritance included Zorah, Eshtaol, Ir-shemesh,
- Judges 13:25
  And the Spirit of the LORD began to stir him at Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.
- Joshua 12:11
  the king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one;

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