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Joshua 18:23

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Avvim, Parah, Ophrah,

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and Avvim, and Parah, and Ophrah,

KJV

And Avim, and Parah, and Ophrah,

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This verse in Joshua 18

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
And Avim, and Parah,.... Of the two first of these we read nowhere else: and Ophrah is not the same with Ophrah in Jdg 6:11; that belonged to the tribe of Manasseh, but rather that which was in the land of Shuah, 1Sa 13:17. Jerom calls this place Aphrah, in the tribe of Benjamin, and says (o), in his time there was a village called Effrem, five miles from Bethel to the east, which very probably is the same with this. (o) De loc. Heb. fol. 88. H.

This site's exposition

These were the cities of the clans

on Joshua 18:21-28

Jericho heads Benjamin's list, the town Joshua cursed at 6:26, and 1 Kings 16:34 records the curse falling on Hiel of Bethel. Verse 28 lists Jebus, which is Jerusalem, while 15:63 records Judah failing to drive out the Jebusites and Judges 1:21 records Benjamin failing.

This site's exposition

Avvim, Parah, Ophrah

Gill finds Avvim and Parah nowhere else as towns. He places this Ophrah in Benjamin, the Ophrah toward which Philistine raiders headed at 1 Samuel 13:17, and keeps it apart from Gideon's Ophrah. Jerome, as Gill reports, knew a village five miles east of Bethel that may preserve the name.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

The testimony of Israel and the thrones of judgment do well together, Ps. cxxii. Some think there was an eye to the name of the place, Shiloh being the name by which the Messiah was known in dying Jacob's prophecy ( Gen. xlix.

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The words behind it

3 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.

  • וְהָעַוִּ֥יםand <the> Avvites

    vehaavimH5761 →

  • וְהַפָּרָ֖הand <the> Parah

    vehaparahH6511 →

  • וְעָפְרָֽה׃and Ophrah

    veaferahH6084 →

Related verses

3 in all, six open

The walk

3 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 13:17

    And raiders went out of the Philistine camp in three divisions. One headed toward Ophrah in the land of Shual,

    it leads to

    • 1 Samuel 14:15

      Then terror struck the Philistines in the camp, in the field, and among all the people. Even those in the outposts and raiding parties trembled. Indeed, the earth quaked and panic spread from God.

    • 1 Samuel 11:11

      The next day Saul organized the troops into three divisions, and during the morning watch they invaded the camp of the Ammonites and slaughtered them, until the hottest part of the day. And the…

    • Joshua 19:3

      Hazar-shual, Balah, Ezem,

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; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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