Joshua 18:27
in Joshua 18Rekem, Irpeel, Taralah,
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ASV
and Rekem, and Irpeel, and Taralah,
KJV
And Rekem, and Irpeel, and Taralah,
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This verse in Joshua 18
Commentary
4 notes on this verseThis 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
Rekem, Irpeel, Taralah
Gill finds no other mention of these three towns. Barnes warns that many places in this chapter and the next can no longer be located, and these three belong to that number.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
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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And Rekem, and Irpeel, and Taralah. Of these cities there is no mention made elsewhere.
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.
Where this verse is studied
About Joshua
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.