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Joshua 19:25

in Joshua 19

Their territory included Helkath, Hali, Beten, Achshaph,

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And their border was Helkath, and Hali, and Beten, and Achshaph,

KJV

And their border was Helkath, and Hali, and Beten, and Achshaph,

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This verse in Joshua 19

Commentary

5 notes on this verse
And their border was Helkath,.... Helkath seems to be the same with Hukok, 1Ch 6:75; and according to Masius it lay ten or twelve miles above Ptolemais: and Hali, of which we read nowhere else. and Beten is by Jerom (h) called Bathne, and was in his time a village by the name of Bethebem, eight miles from Ptolemais to the east.

This site's exposition

The fifth lot came out

on Joshua 19:24-31

Judges 1:31 names towns Asher did not drive out, and Sidon, Rehob, Achzib and Aphek all stand in this allotment. Keil and Delitzsch read Joshua as the record of land granted rather than land occupied. Matthew Henry lays the shortfall on Israel's own slackness rather than on the promise.

This site's exposition

Helkath, Hali, Beten, Achshaph

Barnes places Helkath about seven or eight miles north-west of Acre, and it returns as a Levite town at 21:31. Achshaph sent its king to Jabin's northern league at 11:1, and his defeat is counted at 12:20. Gill sets Beten eight miles east of Ptolemais.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Helkath, a Levitical town Jos 21:31, is probably Yerka, a village about seven or eight miles north-west of Acre, in a Wady of the same name. Alammelech was in the “Wady Melik,” which joins the Kishon from the northeast, not far from the sea. Shihor-libnath - i. e. “black-white.” The two words are now generally admitted to be the name of a river, probably the modern “Nahr Zerka,” or Blue River, which reaches the sea about 8 miles south of Dor, and whose name has a correspondence both to black and white.

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

the fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher--The western boundary is traced from north to south through the cities mentioned; the site of them, however, is unknown.

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The words behind it

6 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.

  • וַיְהִ֖יand it was

    vayhiH1961 →3559 times

  • גְּבוּלָ֑םborder their

    gevulamH1366 →240 times

  • חֶלְקַ֥תHelkath

    chelkatH2520 →

  • וַחֲלִ֖יand Hali

    vachaliH2482 →

  • וָבֶ֥טֶןand Beten

    vavetenH991 →

  • וְאַכְשָֽׁף׃and Acshaph

    veakhshafH407 →3 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

3 in all, six open

The walk

7 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

    Joshua 12:20

    the king of Shimron-meron, one; the king of Achshaph, one;

    it leads to

    • 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;

    • Joshua 19:15

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

  • 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;

    it 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.

    • 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.

    • 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?

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.
Joshua: the study guide →Read Joshua 19 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Joshua, Judges, Ruth; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and The Berean Standard Bible, Joshua 19, with the verses cited in the note.

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