and it passed along to Azmon, went out at the brook of Egypt; and the border ended at the sea. This shall be your south border.
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and it passed along to Azmon, went out at the brook of Egypt; and the border ended at the sea. This shall be your south border.
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From thence it passed toward Azmon, and went out unto the river of Egypt; and the goings out of that coast were at the sea: this shall be your south coast.
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And it passed along to Azmon, and went out at the Brook of Egypt; and the goings out of the border were at the sea; this shall be your south border.
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Passages linked to Joshua 15:4 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Numbers 34:5 The border shall turn about from Azmon to the brook of Egypt, and it shall end at the sea.
- Joshua 13:3 from the Shihor, which is before Egypt, even to the border of Ekron northward, which is counted as Canaanite; the five lords of the Philistines; the Gazites, and the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avvim,
- Exodus 23:31 I will set your border from the Red Sea even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.
- Genesis 15:18 In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I have given this land to your offspring, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Jos 15:4 [From thence] it passed toward Azmon, and…
Jos 15:4 [From thence] it passed toward Azmon, and went out unto the river of Egypt; and the goings out of that coast were at the sea: this shall be your south coast.
Ver. 4. This shall be your south coast.] It is God that "determineth the times before appointed, and the bounds of our habitations"; {Act 17:26} the walls of his people’s houses are continually before him. {Isa 49:16}
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain From thence it passed towards Azmon, and went out…
From thence it passed towards Azmon, and went out unto the river of Egypt,.... In like manner is this coast described, Num 34:5; it is called by Jerom (x) Asemona, and said to be a city in the desert, to the south of Judah, dividing Egypt, and the lot of the tribe of Judah, leading to the sea:
and the outgoings of that coast were at the sea; the Mediterranean sea; or to the west, as the Targum; this was the utmost border of the tribe of Judah this way:
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this shall be your south coast; of the lot that fell to the tribe of Judah.
(x) De loc. Heb. fol. 87. K.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 4. Toward Azmon] This was the last city…
Verse 4. Toward Azmon] This was the last city they possessed toward Egypt.
The river of Egypt] The most eastern branch of the river Nile. See Clarke on Jos 13:3. But there is much reason to doubt whether any branch of the Nile be meant, and whether the promised land extended to that river. On this subject it is impossible to decide either way.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Asemona, which lies nearest to the river of Egypt…
Asemona, which lies nearest to the river of Egypt of all the cities of Juda, Numbers xxxiv. 4., chap. xiii. 3.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 4. Azmon is also unknown.
4. Azmon is also unknown.
River of Egypt — Wady-el-Arish. See note Jos_13:3.
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At the sea — The Mediterranean Sea.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (4) This shall be your south coast.—This phrase does…
(4) This shall be your south coast.—This phrase does not seem to fit in with the language of the rest of the passage. But it is extremely like a reminiscence of the language of Moses in Num_34:3; Num_34:6; Num_34:9; Num_34:12. “This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth” was the instruction to Joshua, and in describing the border of Judah, he is really describing also the southern border of all Israel; and he does it throughout in language very like that of Moses in Numbers 34. But Moses wrote it in the second person and in the future tense throughout; Joshua wrote it in the third person and in the past tense, with this one exception, in which he seems to have unconsciously adopted the phraseology of the lawgiver instead of the historian.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The river of Egypt. (see above, Jos_13:3) "Westward, as…
The river of Egypt. (see above, Jos_13:3) "Westward, as far as Egypt, there is a sandy, salt, barren, unfruitful, and uninhabitable waste" (Knobel). The land, he adds, is better near Gaza, but near the sea it is still pure waste. And the goings out of that coast were at the sea. The word coast, derived through the French from the Latin costa, signifies, like it, a side. It is now used only of the border formed by the sea, but at an earlier period it had a wider signification. The Hebrew word is translated "border" in ver. 1. The meaning is that the boundary line of Judah ran as far as the sea. This shall be your south coast. Or, this shall be to you the southern boundary. The historian here quotes the directions given to Moses in Nu 34, with the evident intention of pointing out that the south border of the children of Israel coincided with that of the tribe of Judah.
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