Joshua 19:15 BSB — MannaFest

Joshua 19:15

It also included Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem. There were twelve cities, along with their villages.

BSB

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ASV

and Kattath, and Nahalal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Bethlehem: twelve cities with their villages.

KJV

And Kattath, and Nahallal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Beth–lehem: twelve cities with their villages.

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Commentary

2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Twelve cities - Only five have been mentioned, and the names in the verses preceding are apparently not names of Zebulonite cities, but merely of points in or near the boundary line. It would therefore appear that seven names have disappeared from the text, and perhaps also the definition of the western frontier.

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The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Beth-lehem - Not that where Christ was born, which was in Judah, but another. Twelve cities - There are more numbered here, but the rest either were not cities properly so called, or were not within this tribe, but only bordering upon it, and belonging to other tribes.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְקַטָּ֤ת	ve.ka.Tat	and Kattah	H7005 →
וְנַֽהֲלָל֙	ve.na.ha.Lal	and Nahalal	H5096 →
וְשִׁמְר֔וֹן	ve.shim.Ron	and Shimron	H8110 →
וְיִדְאֲלָ֖ה	ve.yid.'a.Lah	and Idalah	H3030 →
וּבֵ֣ית	u.Veit	and Beth-	H1035 →
לָ֑חֶם	La.chem	-lehem	H1035 →
עָרִ֥ים	'a.Rim	cities	H5892 →
שְׁתֵּים־	she.teim-	two [plus]	H8147 →
עֶשְׂרֵ֖ה	'es.Reh	ten	H6240 →
וְחַצְרֵיהֶֽן׃	ve.chatz.rei.Hen	and villages their	H2691 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Ruth 1:19
So Naomi and Ruth traveled until they came to Bethlehem. When they entered Bethlehem, the whole city was stirred because of them, and the women of the city exclaimed, “Can this be Naomi?”
leads to
- Matthew 21:10
  When Jesus had entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred and asked, “Who is this?”
- Isaiah 23:7
  Is this your jubilant city, whose origin is from antiquity, whose feet have taken her to settle far away?
- Lamentations 2:15
  All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the…
Through
Joshua 11:1
Now when Jabin king of Hazor heard about these things, he sent word to Jobab king of Madon; to the kings of Shimron and Achshaph;
leads to
- Joshua 11:10
  At that time Joshua turned back and captured Hazor and put its king to the sword, because Hazor was formerly the head of all these kingdoms.
- Joshua 10:3–4
  Therefore Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem sent word to Hoham king of Hebron, Piram king of Jarmuth, Japhia king of Lachish, and Debir king of Eglon, saying,
- Judges 4:2
  So the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his forces was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth-hagoyim.
- Psalms 2:1–4
  Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
- Isaiah 43:5–7
  Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bring your offspring from the east and gather you from the west.

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Joshua

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Joshua