Joshua 15:43
in Joshua 15Iphtah, Ashnah, Nezib,
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ASV
and Iphtah, and Ashnah, and Nezib,
KJV
And Jiphtah, and Ashnah, and Nezib,
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This verse in Joshua 15
Commentary
3 notes on this verseAnd Jiphtah,.... Jiphtah is nowhere else mentioned: and Ashnah; there was another Ashnah of this tribe, and which was in the vale also, met with already in Jos 15:33, and Nezib was in Jerom's (a) times called Nasib, seven miles from Eleutheropolis, as you go to Hebron. (a) De loc. Heb. fol. 93. I.
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.
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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.
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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 and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.