The fourth lot came out for Issachar, even for the children of Issachar according to their families. Their border was to Jezreel, Chesulloth, Shunem, Hapharaim, Shion, Anaharath, Rabbith, Kishion, Ebez, Remeth, Engannim, En Haddah, and Beth Pazzez. The border reached to Tabor, Shahazumah, and Beth Shemesh. Their border ended at the Jordan: sixteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Issachar according to their families, the cities with their villages.
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The fourth lot came out for Issachar, even for the children of Issachar according to their families.
Their border was to Jezreel, Chesulloth, Shunem,
Hapharaim, Shion, Anaharath,
Rabbith, Kishion, Ebez,
Remeth, Engannim, En Haddah, and Beth Pazzez.
The border reached to Tabor, Shahazumah, and Beth Shemesh. Their border ended at the Jordan: sixteen cities with their villages.
This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Issachar according to their families, the cities with their villages.
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And the fourth lot came out to Issachar, for the children of Issachar according to their families.
And their border was toward Jezreel, and Chesulloth, and Shunem,
And Hapharaim, and Shion, and Anaharath,
And Rabbith, and Kishion, and Abez,
And Remeth, and En-gannim, and En-haddah, and Beth-pazzez;
And the coast reacheth to Tabor, and Shahazimah, and Beth-shemesh; and the outgoings of their border were at Jordan: sixteen cities with their villages.
This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Issachar according to their families, the cities and their villages.
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The fourth lot came out for Issachar, even for the children of Issachar according to their families.
And their border was Jezreel, and Chesulloth, and Shunem;
and Hapharaim, and Shion, and Anaharath;
and Rabbith, and Kishion, and Ebez;
and Remeth, and En-gannim, and En-haddah, and Beth-pazzez;
and the border reached to Tabor, and Shahazim, and Beth-shemesh; and the goings out of their border were at the Jordan; sixteen cities with their villages.
This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Issachar according to their families, the cities with their villages.
Cross-references (23)
- 1 Samuel 28:4 (v18) The Philistines gathered themselves together, and came and encamped in Shunem; and Saul gathered all Israel together, and they encamped in…
- Judges 4:6 (v22) She sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh Naphtali, and said to him, “Hasn’t Yahweh, the God of Israel, commanded, ‘Go and…
- 2 Kings 4:8 (v18) One day Elisha went to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman; and she persuaded him to eat bread. So it was, that as often as he passed…
- Joshua 19:12 (v22) It turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrise to the border of Chisloth Tabor. It went out to Daberath, and went up to Japhia.
- Joshua 19:38 (v22) Iron, Migdal El, Horem, Beth Anath, and Beth Shemesh; nineteen cities with their villages.
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- Joshua 21:16 (v22) Ain with its pasture lands, Juttah with its pasture lands, and Beth Shemesh with its pasture lands: nine cities out of those two tribes.
- Joshua 21:29 (v21) Jarmuth with its pasture lands, En Gannim with its pasture lands: four cities.
- 1 Samuel 6:9-19 (v22) Behold, if it goes up by the way of its own border to Beth Shemesh, then he has done us this great evil; but if not, then we shall know…
- 1 Kings 1:3 (v18) So they sought for a beautiful young lady throughout all the borders of Israel, and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the…
- 1 Kings 2:17 (v18) He said, “Please speak to Solomon the king (for he will not tell you ‘no’), that he give me Abishag the Shunammite as wife.”
- 1 Kings 2:21 (v18) She said, “Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother as wife.”
- 1 Kings 4:9 (v22) Ben Deker, in Makaz, in Shaalbim, Beth Shemesh, and Elon Beth Hanan;
- 1 Kings 21:1 (v18) After these things, Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, next to the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.
- 1 Kings 21:15-16 (v18) When Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned, and was dead, Jezebel said to Ahab, “Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the…
- 2 Kings 4:12 (v18) He said to Gehazi his servant, “Call this Shunammite.” When he had called her, she stood before him.
- 2 Kings 8:29 (v18) King Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel from the wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of…
- 2 Kings 9:15 (v18) but king Joram had returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of…
- 2 Kings 9:30 (v18) When Jehu had come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her eyes, and adorned her head, and looked out at the window.
- 2 Kings 14:11-13 (v22) But Amaziah would not listen. So Jehoash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth…
- 1 Chronicles 6:77 (v22) To the rest of the Levites, the sons of Merari, were given, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Rimmono with its pasture lands, Tabor with its…
- Psalms 89:12 (v22) You have created the north and the south. Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name.
- Jeremiah 46:18 (v22) “As I live,” says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies, “surely like Tabor among the mountains, and like Carmel by the sea, so he will…
- Hosea 1:4-5 (v18) Yahweh said to him, “Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel on the house of Jehu, and will…
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On v21 There was another city of this name in the…
There was another city of this name in the tribe of Judah: for under divers tribes certain cities had all one name, and were distinct by the tribe only.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On v18 Jos 19:18 And their border was toward Jezreel, and…
Jos 19:18 And their border was toward Jezreel, and Chesulloth, and Shunem,
Ver. 18. And their border was toward Jezreel, &c.] In a rich and fat soil, according to that was foretold by Jacob and Moses; {Gen 49:14-15 Deu 33:18-19} - "And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant: and he bowed his shoulders to bear, and became a servant to tribute." This was a low poor spirit, and his posterity were, for the general, very unworthy and vile: for his lot here fell in Galilee. Now "doth any good come from Galilee?" saith good Nathanael.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv18, 21 Jezreel, the royal city, 1Ki 21:1. This tribe, because…
Jezreel, the royal city, 1Ki 21:1. This tribe, because it lay between Benjamin on the south and Zebulun on the north, is not here described by its borders, which were the same with theirs; but by some of its cities. Shunera, the birth-place of Abishag, 1Ki 1:3.
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Matthew Henry 1710 · Public Domain On v17 The lot of Issachar ran from Jordan in the…
The lot of Issachar ran from Jordan in the east to the great sea in the west, Manasseh on the south, and Zebulun on the north. A numerous tribe, Num 26:25. Tola, one of the judges, was of this tribe, Jdg 10:1. So was Baasha, one of the kings of Israel, Kg1 15:27. The most considerable places in this tribe were, 1. Jezreel, in which was Ahab's palace, and near it Naboth's vineyard. 2. Shunem, where lived that good Shunamite that entertained Elisha. 3. The river Kishon, on the banks of which, in this tribe, Sisera was beaten by Deborah and Barak. 4. The mountains of Gilboa, on which Saul and Jonathan were slain, which were not far from Endor, where Saul consulted the witch. 5. The valley of Megiddo, where Josiah was slain near Hadad-rimmon, Kg2 23:29; Zac 12:11.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv17–23 And their border was towards Jezreel,.... Which was a…
And their border was towards Jezreel,.... Which was a royal seat in the time of Ahab, Kg1 21:1; and according to Jerom was near to Maximianopolis; See Gill on Hos 1:5; and the same writer (u) says in his day a large village of this name was shown in the great plain between Scythopolis and Legion (he means the plain of Jezreel), and it was the border of Issachar:
and Chesulloth was different from the Chislothtabor, Jos 19:12; that, as Masius observes, was to the north, this to the south of Mount Tabor:
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and Shunem is a place well known for being the dwelling place of a certain woman in the times of Elisha, whose son the prophet raised from the dead, Kg2 4:8; Jerom calls it Sonam, where was the Shunammite woman; but this city here seems to be what he calls Salem, in the tribe of Issachar; and he adds, that there was shown in his day a village by this name, five miles from Mount Tabor to the south (w): according to Bunting (x), it was forty eight miles from Jerusalem to the north, not far from Nain.
(u) De loc. Heb. fol. 92. I. (w) De loc. Heb. fol. 94. K. L. (x) Travels, p. 143.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On v18 Jezreel - The royal city, 1 Kings xxi, 1.…
Jezreel - The royal city, 1 Kings xxi, 1. This tribe, because it lay between Benjamin on the south, and Zebulun on the north, is not here described by its borders, which were the same with theirs; but by some of its cities.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On vv17, 18, 22 Verse 17. The fourth lot came out to Issachar]…
Verse 17. The fourth lot came out to Issachar] It is remarkable, that though Issachar was the eldest brother, yet the lot of Zebulun was drawn before his lot; and this is the order in which Jacob himself mentions them, Ge 49:13-14, though no reason appears, either here or in the place above, why this preference should be given to the younger; but that the apparently fortuitous lot should have distinguished them just as the prophetic Jacob did, is peculiarly remarkable. Known unto God are all his works from the beginning: he has reasons for his conduct, which in many cases are too great for any of his creatures to comprehend, but he works all things after the counsel of his own will, which is ever right and good; and in this case his influence may be as easily seen in the decision by the lot, as on the mind of the patriarch Jacob, when he predicted what should befall his children in the latter days, and his providence continued to ripen, and bring forward what his judgment had deemed right to be done.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On v18 Jos 19:18. Jezreel — The royal city, 1Ki 21:1.…
Jos 19:18. Jezreel — The royal city, 1Ki 21:1. This tribe, because it lay between Benjamin on the south and Zebulun on the north, is not here described by its borders, which were the same with theirs, but by some of its cities.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain On vv18, 21 Jezreel and its famous and fertile plain are the…
Jezreel and its famous and fertile plain are the choicest part of the inheritance of Issachar Jos 17:16.
Shunem - Here the Philistines pitched before the battle of Gilboa 1Sa 28:4. The place is also known as the home of Abishag 1Ki 1:3, and in connection with Elisha 2Ki 4:8; 2Ki 8:1. It is identified with “Solam” (or, Sulem), a small and poor village on the slope of Little Hermon.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On vv17, 18, 20, 21 Issachar. The reason why he has been placed after…
Issachar. The reason why he has been placed after his younger brother, Zabulon, both here and in the blessing of Jacob, is not known.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain On v17 OF ISSACHAR. (Jos 19:17-23)
OF ISSACHAR. (Jos 19:17-23)
the fourth lot came out to Issachar--Instead of describing the boundaries of this tribe, the inspired historian gives a list of its principal cities. These cities are all in the eastern part of the plain of Esdraelon.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On vv17, 18, 21, 22 ISSACHAR’S LOT, Jos_19:17-23.
ISSACHAR’S LOT, Jos_19:17-23.
The territory of this tribe was bounded on the north by Zebulun, on the east by the Jordan, and on the south and west by Manasseh. It took in a large portion of the most beautiful and desirable parts of the great plain of Esdraelon. For the sake of securing themselves in so desirable a portion as the fertile plain of Esdraelon the children of Issachar became humbly subservient to the Canaanites of the adjacent fortified towns, and to the proud country of Phenicia on the near seacoast. They assumed a position of almost slavish servitude to them, becoming their common carriers, mule-drivers, and servants of all work, thereby fulfilling the prophecy of the dying Jacob: “Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens: and he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant, and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant to tribute.” Gen_49:14-15.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23 17–23. Inheritance of the Tribe of Issachar
17–23. Inheritance of the Tribe of Issachar
17. And the fourth lot] came forth to the tribe of Issachar, whose place during the journey to Canaan had been on the east of the tabernacle, side by side with his brothers Judah and Zebulun, the group moving foremost in the march (Num_2:5; Num_10:15).
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv17–22 (17) The fourth lot . . . to Issachar.—These…
(17) The fourth lot . . . to Issachar.—These two tribes were located next to the house of Joseph on the north. It should be remembered that Issachar and Zebulun had been associated with Judah to form the same camp and division of the army in the wilderness. This association, lasting forty years, must have created many ties between these two tribes and their leader Judah. It was no ordinary wisdom that placed the descendants of Rachel (Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh) between Judah on the south and Judah’s two associates on the north—to cement the union of all Israel, and as far as possible to prevent discord.
With regard to Judah and Zebulun, it is noticeable that we find their union reproduced in the earthly history of our Lord. Mary, who was of the house of David, and Joseph of the same lineage, are found dwelling in Nazareth, in the tribe of Zebulun. Thus the north and the south alike had “part in David,” and inheritance in David’s Son. There is a Bethlehem (Jos_19:15) in Zebulun as well as in Judah. The name is not found in any other tribe.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv18, 21, 22, 23 Jezreel. The valley (qme) of Jezreel, known in later…
Jezreel. The valley (qme) of Jezreel, known in later Greek as the plain of Esdrsela or Esdraclon (RAPC Jdt 1:8 7:2 2Ma 12:4-9) was "the perennial battlefield of Palestine from that time to the present" (Cooper, "Egyptian Obelisks," p. 33). Lieut. Conder ("Quart. Paper, Pal. Expl. Fund," Jan., 1873), however, takes exception to this statement. "The great battles of Joshua," he says, "were fought far to the south." We presume he would make an exception on behalf of the action by the waters of Merom, and that he does not wish us to forget that the majority of Joshua"s other "battles" were sieges. "David"s wars were fought with the Philistines," he continues, "while the invasions of the Syrians were directed to the neighbourhood of Samaria." But here, again, he would seem to have forgotten 1Sa_29:1 1Ki_20:26 2Ki_13:17, 2Ki_13:25, while he expressly admits that the great battles of Gilboa and Megiddo, in which Saul and Josiah were defeated and met their deaths, were fought here. And we have already seen that twice did the Egyptians invade Syria by this plain. One of these invasions took place while Moses was in Egypt, under Thothmes III The other was the famous expedition of Rameses II against Syria, about the time of Deborah and Barak. If we add to these the victory of Gideon over the Midianites and the overthrow of Sisera, we shall have reason to think that the epithet "the battlefield of Palestine" applied to this plain is not altogether misplaced, especially if, with a large number of critics, we regard the Book of Judith as founded on fact, but relating to events of some other time than that of Nebuchadnezzar. "Well may it be fertile," exclaims Mr. Bartlett ("From Egypt to Palestine," p. 478), "for it has drunk the blood of the Midianite, the Philistine, the Jew, the Roman, the Babylonian, the Egyptian, the Frenchman, the Englishman, the Saracen, and the Turk. It is a singular group to summon up to the imagination, Gideon, Saul, and Jonathan, Deborah, Barak, and Sisera, Ahab, Jezebel, Jehu, Josiah, Omri, and Azariah, Holofernes and Judith, Vespasian and Josephus, Saladin and the Knights Templar, Bonaparte and Kleber." The list is a striking one. But certain it is that the plains of Jezreel have been noted as the highway of every conqueror who wished to make the fertile fields of Palestine his own. The Israelitish invasion alone seems to have been decided elsewhere than on that plain, stretching as it does from the foot of Carmel in a southeasterly direction, and divided in the direction of Jordan by Mount Gilboa and Little Hermon into three distinct branches, in the midst of the southernmost and most extensive of which stands the famous city of Jezreel God"s acre, or sowing ground, as the name indicates. Here Barak and Deborah fell upon the hosts of Jabin, (Jud_1:4:14) descending suddenly from the heights of Tabor with 10, 000 men upon the vast and evidently undisciplined host that lay in the plain. Here Gideon encountered the vast host of the Midianites, (Jud_1:7:12) who, after laying waste the south country, finally encamped in this fertile plain (accurately called qme in Jud_1:6:38), and with their leaders Oreb and Zeeb, and their princes Zebah and Zalmunna, were swept away in one of those sudden and irrational panics so often fatal to Eastern armies. Here Saul, hard by Jezreel, dispirited by his visit to the witch of Endor, on the north of Gilboa, gathered his men together as a forlorn hope, to await the attack of the Philistines, their numbers at first swelled by a number of Israelites whom Saul"s tyranny and oppression had driven into exile. (1Sa 29) Advancing to Jezreel, the Philistine host carried all before them, and drove the Israelites in headlong flight up the steeps of Gilboa, where Saul and his sons fell fighting bravely to the last. (1Sa 30) In the later and sadder days of the Israelitish monarchy, when the ten tribes had been carried into captivity by the Assyrian conqueror, Josiah courted disaster by a rash onslaught upon the Egyptian troops as they marched against Assyria. No details of this fight at Megiddo are preserved, save the fatal fire of the Egyptian archers, who marked Josiah as their victim, and drove, no doubt, his leaderless troops from the field. (2Ki_23:29 2Ch_35:22) At Jezreel, too, Ahab made his capital. Hither Elijah, when "the hand of the Lord was upon him", (1Ki_18:46) ran after the wondrous scene on Mount Carmel, when he alone, in a strength not his own, withstood the "prophets of Baal, even four hundred and fifty men." Here Jehoram stood on the hill, with its commanding view, watching with an uneasy distrust the furious rush of Jehu with his troop from the other side Jordan, and here, in the plat of Naboth the Jezreelite, so fatal to Ahab and his house, did the vengeance decreed overtake the unhappy monarch, (2Ki_9:25) The spot may be still identified. It is the modern Zerin. Ritter describes it (and so does Robinson) as standing on the edge of a precipice 100 feet high, and commanding a fine view of the plain of Beth-shean on the east, and of Esdraelon on the west. There is a tower here which commands the same view as the watchmen of Jehoram commanded, bearing witness to the accuracy of the historian. So in 1Ki_4:12, the mention of Taanach, Megiddo, and the region of Bethshean, as beneath (ltjJmi). Jezreel is another instance of topographical detail which marks the correctness of the record. Another point is that we read in the narrative above mentioned of "chariots." Wilson ("Lands of the Bible," 2:303) was surprised, on leaving the rugged heights of the hill country, to find how easily, if the civilisation of Palestine permitted, excellent roads might be made throughout this region; and Canon Tristram ("Land of Israel," p. 421) has remarked on the desolate appearance now presented by that fertile region, the result of the insecurity for life and property which is so commonly remarked by all who have travelled in the East. Here, where under a better rule would be the abode of peace and plenty, no cultivator of the land dare venture to pass the night, exposed to the depredations of the wild tribes that infest the country. Only a mountain fastness, hard to climb and comparatively easy to defend, affords a secure retreat for those who would live peaceably in that once favoured land. Shunem. Now Sulem: the place of the encampment of the Philistines before they "pitched in Aphek". (1Sa_28:4 1Sa_29:1) It was "five Roman miles south of Mount Tabor" (Vandevelde) and an hour and a half (i.e. about six miles) north of Jezreel (Keil and Delitzsch). Here Abishag the Shunammite lived, (1Ki_1:3 1Ki_2:17, 1Ki_2:21) and here Elisha lodged, and afterwards restored the son of his entertainers to life. (2Ki 4 2Ki 8)
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv17, 20, 23 The fourth casting of lots
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The fourth
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Chesulloth ... Shunem ... Hapharaim ... Shion ... Anaharath
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v17 19:17-23 The land given to the tribe of Issachar…
19:17-23 The land given to the tribe of Issachar included much of the fertile Jezreel Valley. During Old Testament times, this valley was largely a swamp surrounded by prosperous and important cities. This area was a center of Canaanite strength, so this small tribe had trouble gaining a foothold at first.
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