The seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families. The border of their inheritance was Zorah, Eshtaol, Irshemesh, Shaalabbin, Aijalon, Ithlah, Elon, Timnah, Ekron, Eltekeh, Gibbethon, Baalath, Jehud, Bene Berak, Gath Rimmon, Me Jarkon, and Rakkon, with the border opposite Joppa. The border of the children of Dan went out beyond them; for the children of Dan went up and fought against Leshem, and took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and lived therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their forefather.
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The seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families. The border of their inheritance was Zorah, Eshtaol, Irshemesh, Shaalabbin, Aijalon, Ithlah, Elon, Timnah, Ekron, Eltekeh, Gibbethon, Baalath, Jehud, Bene Berak, Gath Rimmon, Me Jarkon, and Rakkon, with the border opposite Joppa. The border of the children of Dan went out beyond them; for the children of Dan went up and fought against Leshem, and took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and lived therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their forefather. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families, these cities with their villages.
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The seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families.
The border of their inheritance was Zorah, Eshtaol, Irshemesh,
Shaalabbin, Aijalon, Ithlah,
Elon, Timnah, Ekron,
Eltekeh, Gibbethon, Baalath,
Jehud, Bene Berak, Gath Rimmon,
Me Jarkon, and Rakkon, with the border opposite Joppa.
The border of the children of Dan went out beyond them; for the children of Dan went up and fought against Leshem, and took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and lived therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their forefather.
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And the seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families.
And the coast of their inheritance was Zorah, and Eshtaol, and Ir-shemesh,
And Shaalabbin, and Ajalon, and Jethlah,
And Elon, and Thimnathah, and Ekron,
And Eltekeh, and Gibbethon, and Baalath,
And Jehud, and Bene-berak, and Gath-rimmon,
And Me-jarkon, and Rakkon, with the border before Japho.
And the coast of the children of Dan went out too little for them: therefore the children of Dan went up to fight against Leshem, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and dwelt therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their father.
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The seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families.
And the border of their inheritance was Zorah, and Eshtaol, and Ir-shemesh;
and Shaalabbin, and Aijalon, and Ithlah;
and Elon, and Timnah, and Ekron;
and Eltekeh, and Gibbethon, and Baalath;
and Jehud, and Bene-berak, and Gath-rimmon;
and Me-jarkon, and Rakkon, with the border over against Joppa.
And the border of the children of Dan was too strait for them; so the children of Dan went up and fought against Leshem, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and dwelt therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their father.
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- Judges 1:35 (v42) but the Amorites would dwell in Mount Heres, in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim. Yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they…
- Joshua 21:24 (vv42, 45) Aijalon with its pasture lands, Gath Rimmon with its pasture lands: four cities.
- Genesis 38:12 (v43) After many days, Shua’s daughter, the wife of Judah, died. Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheep shearers to Timnah, he and his…
- Judges 1:34-35 (v47) The Amorites forced the children of Dan into the hill country, for they would not allow them to come down to the valley; but the Amorites…
- Joshua 10:12 (v42) Then Joshua spoke to Yahweh in the day when Yahweh delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel. He said in the sight of Israel,…
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- Joshua 15:33 (v41) In the lowland, Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah,
- Joshua 15:45 (v43) Ekron, with its towns and its villages;
- Joshua 21:23 (v44) Out of the tribe of Dan, Elteke with its pasture lands, Gibbethon with its pasture lands,
- Judges 13:2 (v41) There was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and childless.
- Judges 13:25 (v41) Yahweh’s Spirit began to move him in Mahaneh Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.
- Judges 14:1-2 (v43) Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines. He came up, and told his father and his mother,…
- Judges 16:31 (v41) Then his brothers and all the house of his father came down and took him, and brought him up and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in…
- Judges 18:1-29 (v47) In those days there was no king in Israel. In those days the tribe of the Danites sought an inheritance to dwell in; for to that day, their…
- Judges 18:2 (v41) The children of Dan sent five men of their family from their whole number, men of valor, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land…
- 1 Samuel 5:10 (v43) So they sent God’s ark to Ekron. As God’s ark came to Ekron, the Ekronites cried out, saying, “They have brought the ark of the God of…
- 1 Samuel 14:31 (v42) They struck the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon. The people were very faint;
- 1 Kings 9:18 (v44) Baalath, Tamar in the wilderness,
- 1 Kings 15:27 (v44) Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha struck him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the…
- 1 Kings 16:15 (v44) In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri reigned seven days in Tirzah. Now the people were encamped against Gibbethon, which…
- 1 Chronicles 2:53 (v41) The families of Kiriath Jearim: the Ithrites, the Puthites, the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; from them came the Zorathites and the…
- 2 Chronicles 2:16 (v46) and we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as you need. We will bring it to you in rafts by sea to Joppa; then you shall carry it up to…
- 2 Chronicles 11:10 (v41) Zorah, Aijalon, and Hebron, which are fortified cities in Judah and in Benjamin.
- Amos 1:8 (v43) I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him who holds the scepter from Ashkelon; and I will turn my hand against Ekron; and the…
- Jonah 1:3 (v46) But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid…
- Acts 9:36 (v46) Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which when translated, means Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and acts of…
- Acts 9:43 (v46) He stayed many days in Joppa with a tanner named Simon.
- Acts 10:8 (v46) Having explained everything to them, he sent them to Joppa.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On vv46–47 Called Joppa.
Called Joppa.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv40, 47 Jos 19:40 [And] the seventh lot came out for…
Jos 19:40 [And] the seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families.
Ver. 40. For the tribe of the children of Dan.] Who also, as well as Simeon, had various cities taken out of the first lot of the tribe of Judah. See on Jos 19:1.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv41, 47 Their inheritance; which is here described only by its…
Their inheritance; which is here described only by its cities, not by its borders, which are in part the same with Judah’s; and their inheritance is in good part taken out of Judah’s too large portion, as appears from divers of the cities here mentioned, which are also reckoned as in Judah’s portion.
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Matthew Henry 1710 · Public Domain On v40 Dan, though commander of one of the four squadrons…
Dan, though commander of one of the four squadrons of the camp of Israel, in the wilderness, that which brought up the rear, yet was last provided for in Canaan, and his lot fell in the southern part of Canaan, between Judah on the east and the land of the Philistines on the west, Ephraim on the north and Simeon on the south. Providence ordered this numerous and powerful tribe into a post of danger, as best able to deal with those vexatious neighbours the Philistines, and so it was found in Samson. Here is an account, 1. Of what fell to this tribe by lot, Zorah, and Eshtaol, and the camp of Dan thereabouts, of which we read in the story of Samson. And near there was the valley of Eshcol, whence the spies brought the famous bunch of grapes. Japho, or Joppa was in this lot. 2. Of what they got by their own industry and valour, which is mentioned here (Jos 19:47), but related at large, Jdg 18:7, etc.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv40–47 And the coast of their inheritance was Zorah, and…
And the coast of their inheritance was Zorah, and Eshtaol,.... The tribe of Dan is not described by places the boundaries of it, as other tribes, but by its cities, which were chiefly, at least several of them, taken out of the tribe of Judah, as the two first of these most manifestly were; See Gill on Jos 15:33,
and Irshemesh signifies the city of the sun, as the Targum interprets it, and was so called very probably from a temple in it, dedicated to the idolatrous worship of the sun, but a different place from Bethshemesh in other tribes; though those of that name, as this, had it for the like reason; and so Heliopolis, in Egypt, which signifies the same, where was a temple of the same kind; as there was another city of this name, between the mountains of Libanus and Antilibanus, now called Balbec (p), where the ruins of the temple are yet to be seen: but this was a different place, the Septuagint version calls it Sammaus, and it was, according to Jerom (q), the same with Emmaus, afterwards called Nicopolis; which, if the same Emmaus with that in Luk 24:13; though some doubt it, was sixty furlongs from Jerusalem, or seven miles and a half.
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(p) See Maundrell's Journey from Aleppo, &c. p. 120, 138. (q) Comment. in Ezek. xlviii. fol. 263. A.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On vv41, 47 Of their inheritance - Which is here described only…
Of their inheritance - Which is here described only by its cities, not its borders, which are in part the same with Judah's, and their inheritance is in good part taken out of Judah's too large portion; as appears from divers of the cities here mentioned, which are also reckoned in Judah's portion.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On vv41, 42, 43, 45, 46, 47 Verse 41. Zorah, and Eshtaol] See Clarke on Jos…
Verse 41. Zorah, and Eshtaol] See Clarke on Jos 15:33.
Ir-shemesh] The city of sun; another proof of the idolatry of the Canaanites. Some think this was the same as Beth-shemesh.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On v47 Jos 19:47. The coast of Dan went out too…
Jos 19:47. The coast of Dan went out too little — The words too little are not in the Hebrew, where there is nothing that corresponds with them. The passage runs thus: The coast of the children of Dan went out from them; that is, they were dispossessed of it in some parts, or kept out of them by the former inhabitants; and we find, by Jdg 1:34, that the Amorites forced them into the mountains, and would not suffer them to dwell in the valley. This reduced them to such straits, that they were constrained to enlarge their border some other way; which they did as follows. They went up to fight against Leshem — A city not far from Jordan, called Laish in the book of Judges, before it was taken by the Danites. And called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their father — It was customary for conquerors to change the names of those places they subdued. This was done with respect to Leshem, after the death of Joshua; and is related more largely in the book of Judges, chap. 18., where the whole expedition is recorded. From whence some have argued that this book was not written by Joshua; whereas no more can fairly be inferred, than that, in after times, Ezra, or some other, thought good to insert this verse here, in order to complete the account of the Danites’ possessions.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain On vv46–47 Japho (the modern Jaffa, or Yafa), elsewhere (see the…
Japho (the modern Jaffa, or Yafa), elsewhere (see the margin) called Joppa, is often mentioned in the history of the Maccabees and was, as it still is, the leading port of access to Jerusalem both for pilgrims and for merchandise. It is a very ancient town.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On vv41, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47 Sun. Some suppose that it is the same with…
Sun. Some suppose that it is the same with Bethsames of Juda, which was ceded to the Levites. (Calmet) --- Dan lay on the west of Juda. (Haydock) --- Selebin, where the Amorrhites maintained themselves, Judges i. 35.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain On vv40, 47 OF DAN. (Jos 19:40-48)
OF DAN. (Jos 19:40-48)
the seventh lot came out for the tribe . . . Dan--It lay on the west of Benjamin and consisted of portions surrendered by Judah and Ephraim. Its boundaries are not stated, as they were easily distinguishable from the relative position of Dan to the three adjoining tribes.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On vv40, 41, 42, 46, 47 DAN’S LOT, Jos_19:40-48.
DAN’S LOT, Jos_19:40-48.
[The territory assigned to Dan was the smallest of all the tribe divisions. But it was not without advantages. Its border on the northeast and south joined respectively on Ephraim, Benjamin, and Judah, the three most powerful tribes of Israel. Its western border was the Mediterranean. The territory thus enclosed embraced the beautiful plain south of Joppa, the cornfield and garden of Southern Palestine. Dr. Robinson thus describes this district, as seen from the tower of Ramleh: “Towards the north and south, as far as the eye could reach, the beautiful plain was spread out like a carpet at our feet, variegated with tracts of brown, from which the crops had just been taken, and with fields still rich with the yellow of ripe corn, or green with the springing millet. Immediately below us the eye rested on the immense olive groves of Ramleh and Lydda, and the picturesque towers, and minarets, and domes, of these large villages. In the plain itself there were not many villages; but the tract of hills, and the mountain side beyond, especially in the northeast, appeared as if studded with them, and, as now seen in the setting sun, they seemed like white villas and hamlets among the dark hills, presenting an appearance of thriftiness and beauty which certainly would not stand a closer examination.”
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But the children of Dan were unable to hold this beautiful plain, for “the Amorites forced them into the mountain, for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley,” (Jdg_1:34,) and they were obliged to receive help from “the hand of the house of Joseph.” Jos_19:35.
Some time after the allotment this tribe enlarged its possessions by the conquest of Laish in the north. Judges 18. In this covert but daring movement Dan fulfilled the prophecies of Jacob and of Moses. Gen_49:17; Deuteronomy 13:32. Of this tribe was the famous hero Samson, who judged Israel twenty years. By taking Micah’s images, and with them establishing a tribe sanctuary at Dan, (Jdg_18:20; Jdg_18:30,) they seem to have been the first to adopt and establish an illegal worship in Israel, and as the tribe of Dan is not mentioned in Rev_7:5-7, among those that were sealed, some of the fathers inclined to believe that from this tribe Antichrist should spring.]
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv40–47 40–48. The Inheritance of the Tribe of Dan
40–48. The Inheritance of the Tribe of Dan
40. the seventh lot] came out to the smallest of all the tribes, that of Dan, descended from the fifth son of Jacob. The position of the tribe during the march through the wilderness had been on the north side of the Tabernacle, the hindmost of the long procession between Naphtali and Asher. At the census in the desert it was the most numerous of all the tribes with the exception of Judah, containing 62,700 men able to bear arms.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv40, 41, 47 (40) The seventh lot . . . of the…
(40) The seventh lot . . . of the children of Dan.—Dan was the most numerous tribe, next to Judah, in each census taken during the exodus. (See Numbers 1, 26) This tribe had also had a post of honour in being commander of the rear-guard during the march. A similar post is here assigned to Dan in Palestine, viz., next to Judah, on the side of the Philistine territory. The Philistines were the most powerful and warlike of the unconquered nations of Palestine. The wisdom of guarding Israel on their frontier by the two strongest of the tribes is manifest. It was Samson, a Danite, who began to deliver Israel from them, and David completed the work. Though there were Philistine wars in the time of the later kings, they never had dominion over Israel after David’s time.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv41–47 Zorah and Eshtaol. On the border between Judah and…
Zorah and Eshtaol. On the border between Judah and Dan, but abandoned by the tribe of Judah to the Danites. (see Jud_1:13:2, 25) "The wild and impassable wadies, the steep, hard, rocky hills, their wildernesses of mastic, clear springs, and frequent caves and precipices, are the fastnesses in which Samson was born, and from which he descended into the plain to harry the Philistines (Lieut. Conder in Pal. Expl. Fund, Quart. Paper, Jan., 1874). Robinson identifies Zorah with Surat. Irshemesh. Another sign of sun-worship. Ir-shemaesh is "the city of the sun."
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv40, 43, 47 The seventh casting of lots
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The seventh
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The territory of its inheritance
The land that the tribe of Dan received is spoken of as if it was an inheritance that they received as a permanent possession. AT: "The territory of land that the tribe of Dan received as an inheritance" (See: Metaphor)
Zorah, Eshtaol, Ir Shemesh, Shaalabbin, Aijalon, and Ithlah
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv40, 43, 47 19:40-48 The original allotment given to the tribe of…
19:40-48 The original allotment given to the tribe of Dan lay west of Judah and southwest of Ephraim’s main territory, between Judah and Philistia.
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