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Joshua 19:39

in Joshua 19

This was the inheritance of the clans of the tribe of Naphtali, including these cities and their villages.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Naphtali according to their families, the cities with their villages.

KJV

This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Naphtali according to their families, the cities and their villages.

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This verse in Joshua 19

Commentary

4 notes on this verse
This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Naphtali,.... Which Josephus (o) thus describes;"the country to the east, as far as Damascus the city, and upper Galilee, the Naphtalites took, unto Mount Lebanon, and the fountains of Jordan, which flow out of the mount, reaching the northern border of the city Arce:" according to their families; which was divided among them, according to the number of their families: the cities and their villages; before enumerated. (o) Antiqu. l. 5. c. 1. sect. 22.

This site's exposition

The sixth lot came out

on Joshua 19:32-39

Hazor, burned at 11:10-11, appears at verse 36 as an ordinary town, yet by Judges 4:2 a king reigning in Hazor oppresses Israel again. Kedesh at verse 37 becomes a city of refuge at 20:7 and is where Deborah sends for Barak at Judges 4:6.

This site's exposition

This was the inheritance of the clans of the tribe of Naphtali

Josephus, as Gill quotes him, gives Naphtali upper Galilee as far as Lebanon and the springs of the Jordan. Matthew Henry places Capernaum and Bethsaida within this tribe, towns where many of Christ's miracles were done according to Matthew 11:21-23. Henry adds that Joshua routed Jabin here at 11:5-7.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

the sixth lot came out to the children of Naphtali--Although the cities mentioned have not been discovered, it is evident, from Zaanannim, which is by Kedesh, that is, on the northwest of Lake Merom (Jud 4:11), that the boundary described (Jos 19:34) ran from the southwest towards the northeast, up to the sources of the Jordan.

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The words behind it

8 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.

  • זֹ֗אתthis

    zotH2063 →603 times

  • נַחֲלַ֛ת[was] [the] inheritance of

    nachalatH5159 →222 times

  • מַטֵּ֥ה[the] tribe of

    matehH4294 →252 times

  • בְנֵֽי־[the] descendants of

    venei-H1121 →4930 times

  • נַפְתָּלִ֖יNaphtali

    naftaliH5321 →51 times

  • לְמִשְׁפְּחֹתָ֑םto clans their

    lemishpechotamH4940 →303 times

  • הֶעָרִ֖יםthe cities

    hearimH5892 →1090 times

  • וְחַצְרֵיהֶֽן׃ פand villages their

    vechatzreihenH2691 →191 times

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

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 Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; 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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