Joshua 15:62
in Joshua 15Beth-arabah, Middin, Secacah, Nibshan, the City of Salt, and En-gedi—six cities, along with their villages.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
and Nibshan, and the City of Salt, and En-gedi; six cities with their villages.
KJV
And Nibshan, and the city of Salt, and En–gedi; six cities with their villages.
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This verse in Joshua 15
Commentary
3 notes on this verseThe city of Salt - Or of Melach. This city was somewhere in the vicinity of the lake Asphaltites, the waters of which are the saltest perhaps in the world. The whole country abounds with salt: see the note on Gen 19:25. Some suppose that it is the same as Zoar, the place to which Lot escaped after the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. En-gedi - The well of the kid: it was situated between Jericho and the lake of Sodom or Dead Sea.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
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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And Nibshan,.... Of Nibshan no mention is made elsewhere: and the city of Salt some take to be Zoar, so called because near the salt sea, or where Lot's wife was turned into a pillar of salt, Gen 19:22; but rather this city might be so called, because salt was made here. and Engedi, or Engaddi, is a well known place, near the salt sea; See Gill on Eze 47:
The words behind it
8 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְהַנִּבְשָׁ֥ן | vehanivshan | and <the> Nibshan | H5044 → | |
| וְעִיר־ | veir- | and [the] city of | H5898 → | |
| הַמֶּ֖לַח | hamelach | <the> Salt | H5898 → | |
| וְעֵ֣ין | veein | and En | H5872 → | |
| גֶּ֑דִי | gedi | Gedi | H5872 → | |
| עָרִ֥ים | ʾarim | cities | H5892 → | 1090 times |
| שֵׁ֖שׁ | shesh | six | H8337 → | 216 times |
| וְחַצְרֵיהֶֽן׃ | vechatzreihen | and villages their | H2691 → | 191 times |
וְהַנִּבְשָׁ֥ןand <the> Nibshan
vehanivshanH5044 →
וְעִיר־and [the] city of
veir-H5898 →
הַמֶּ֖לַח<the> Salt
hamelachH5898 →
וְעֵ֣יןand En
veeinH5872 →
גֶּ֑דִיGedi
gediH5872 →
עָרִ֥יםcities
ʾarimH5892 →1090 times
שֵׁ֖שׁsix
sheshH8337 →216 times
וְחַצְרֵיהֶֽן׃and villages their
vechatzreihenH2691 →191 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach 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
2 Chronicles 20:2Then some men came and told Jehoshaphat, “A vast army is coming against you from Edom, from beyond the Sea; they are already in Hazazon-tamar” (that is, En-gedi).
it leads to
- Genesis 14:7
Then they turned back to invade En-mishpat (that is, Kadesh), and they conquered the whole territory of the Amalekites, as well as the Amorites who lived in Hazazon-tamar.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- 1 Samuel 23:29
And David went up from there and lived in the strongholds of En-gedi.
- Joshua 3:16
the flowing water stood still. It backed up as far upstream as Adam, a city in the area of Zarethan, while the water flowing toward the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) was…
- Genesis 14:3
The latter five came as allies to the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea).
- Genesis 14:7
Through
1 Samuel 23:29And David went up from there and lived in the strongholds of En-gedi.
it leads to
- Song of Solomon 1:14
My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms in the vineyards of En-gedi.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- 2 Chronicles 20:2
Then some men came and told Jehoshaphat, “A vast army is coming against you from Edom, from beyond the Sea; they are already in Hazazon-tamar” (that is, En-gedi).
- Ezekiel 47:10
Fishermen will stand by the shore; from En-gedi to En-eglaim they will spread their nets to catch fish of many kinds, like the fish of the Great Sea.
- 1 Samuel 24:1
After Saul had returned from pursuing the Philistines, he was told, “David is in the wilderness of En-gedi.”
- Song of Solomon 1:14
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.