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Joshua 15:36

in Joshua 15

Shaaraim, Adithaim, and Gederah (or Gederothaim)—fourteen cities, along with their villages.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

and Shaaraim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and Gederothaim; fourteen cities with their villages.

KJV

And Sharaim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and Gederothaim; fourteen cities with their villages:

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This verse in Joshua 15

Commentary

5 notes on this verse
And Sharaim,.... Sharaim seems to be the Saara of Jerom, which he describes as a village on the borders of Eleutheropolis, to the north as you go to Nicopolis (or Emmaus), about ten miles from it in the tribe of Dan or Judah (o); there was a place called Bethshaaraim, where the sanhedrim sometimes sat (p), and where R. Judah was buried (q).

This site's exposition

These were in the foothills

on Joshua 15:33-47

Ekron, Ashdod and Gaza are written into Judah's inheritance, though Joshua 11:22 had just said that Anakim survived in Gaza and Ashdod. Zorah and Eshtaol open the list, where Samson is born at Judges 13:2, and from here the border on paper and the ground held differ.

This site's exposition

Gederah (or Gederothaim)

The King James text names fifteen towns before the total of fourteen, and Matthew Henry and Clarke both take Gederah and Gederothaim as one place. Shaaraim gives its name to the road where the Philistine dead lay after Goliath fell, at 1 Samuel 17:52. The count then agrees.

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 Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Gederah - See the note on Jos 12:13. Fourteen cities - Well reckoned, we shall find fifteen cities here; but probably Gederah and Gederothaim (Jos 15:36) are the same. See the note on Jos 15:32.

The words behind it

8 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.

  • וְשַׁעֲרַ֙יִם֙and Shaaraim

    veshaarayimH8189 →

  • וַעֲדִיתַ֔יִםand Adithaim

    vaaditayimH5723 →

  • וְהַגְּדֵרָ֖הand <the> Gederah

    vehagederahH1449 →

  • וּגְדֵרֹתָ֑יִםand Gederothaim

    ugederotayimH1453 →

  • עָרִ֥יםcities

    ʾarimH5892 →1090 times

  • אַרְבַּֽע־four-

    ʾarba'-H702 →318 times

  • עֶשְׂרֵ֖הteen

    ʾesrehH6240 →338 times

  • וְחַצְרֵיהֶֽן׃and villages their

    vechatzreihenH2691 →191 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

4 in all, six open

The walk

5 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

    1 Samuel 17:52

    Then the men of Israel and Judah charged forward with a shout and pursued the Philistines to the entrance of Gath and to the gates of Ekron. And the bodies of the Philistines were…

    it leads to

    • Joshua 15:11

      Then it went out to the northern slope of Ekron, curved toward Shikkeron, proceeded to Mount Baalah, went on to Jabneel, and ended at the Sea.

    • Joshua 15:33–36

      These were in the foothills:

    • Judges 7:23

      Then the men of Israel were called out from Naphtali, Asher, and all Manasseh, and they pursued the Midianites.

    • Joshua 15:45–46

      Ekron, with its towns and villages;

    • 2 Samuel 23:10

      but Eleazar stood his ground and struck the Philistines until his hand grew weary and stuck to his sword. The LORD brought about a great victory that day. Then the troops returned to him,…

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.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; 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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