The border of their inheritance was Zorah, Eshtaol, Irshemesh,
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The border of their inheritance was Zorah, Eshtaol, Irshemesh,
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And the coast of their inheritance was Zorah, and Eshtaol, and Ir-shemesh,
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And the border of their inheritance was Zorah, and Eshtaol, and Ir-shemesh;
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Passages linked to Joshua 19:41 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Joshua 15:33 In the lowland, Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah,
- Judges 13:2 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 Yahweh’s Spirit began to move him in Mahaneh Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.
- Judges 16:31 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 the burial site of Manoah his father. He judged Israel twenty years.
- Judges 18:2 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 and to search it. They said to them, “Go, explore the land!” They came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.
- 1 Chronicles 2:53 The families of Kiriath Jearim: the Ithrites, the Puthites, the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; from them came the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites.
- 2 Chronicles 11:10 Zorah, Aijalon, and Hebron, which are fortified cities in Judah and in Benjamin.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain 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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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And Shaalabbin,.... The first of these is the same…
And Shaalabbin,.... The first of these is the same with Shaalbim, Jdg 1:35; and which Jerom (r) calls Selab, in the tribe of Dan; and which he says was in his day shown a large village on the borders of Sebaste, by the name of Selaba.
and Ajalon is famous for the standing still of the moon in its valley while Joshua pursued his enemies; see Gill on Jos 10:12,
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and Jethlah, of which we read nowhere else.
(r) De loc. Heb. fol. 94. K.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain 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 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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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain 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.
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 41. Zorah, and Eshtaol — These cities were originally…
41. Zorah, and Eshtaol — These cities were originally allotted to Judah, (see Jos_15:33,) and so also were other cities of this list. But the original allotment being found too large for Judah, the southwestern portion was given to Simeon, (Jos_19:1-9,) and a part of the northwestern to Dan. Ir-shemesh is supposed to be the same as Beth-shemesh in Jos_15:10.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 41. And the coast] allotted to the tribe, in…
41. And the coast] allotted to the tribe, in spite of the numbers just mentioned, was the smallest of all. Compressed into the narrow space between the north-western hills of Judah and the Mediterranean, it was surrounded by the three most powerful tribes of the whole confederacy, Ephraim and Benjamin on the north and east, Judah on the south and south-east.
was Zorah] Observe that the boundaries of this tribe are not defined. They naturally follow from those of Judah, Ephraim, and Benjamin.
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Zorah, and Eshtaol] See above, ch. Jos_15:33. For Ir-shemesh = Beth-shemesh = modern ’Ain-Shems, see above, ch. Jos_15:10.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (41) And the coast . . .—Zorah and Eshtaol,…
(41) And the coast . . .—Zorah and Eshtaol, in the tribe of Dan, had been originally assigned to Judah (Jos_15:33); so also Ekron. But it is not clear whether they are mentioned here as marking the border of Dan and Judah, or actually in the territory of the former. However, Dan is wedged in, as it were, between the powerful tribes of Judah and Ephraim, the unconquered Philistines, and the sea. It is not surprising that their coast “went out from them” (Jos_19:47) when it was partly unconquered, partly taken from other tribes in the first instance. Conder says it was carved out of the country of Ephraim.
(41-46) All the towns mentioned here are identified by Conder.
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Zorah—Sur’ah
Eshtaol—Eshû’a
Ir-shemesh—Ain Sheme Shaalabbin—Selbît
Ajalon—Yâlo
Jethlah—(Ruin) Beit Tul}Are all in sheet 17
Elon—Beit Ello
Thimnathah—(Ruin) Tibneh}Sheet 14
Ekron-(akir, sheet 16){
Gibbethon-(Kibbiah, sheet 14)
Baalath—(Belaîn, sheet 14)
Jehud—El-Yehudîyeh
Bene-berak—Ibn Ibrak}Sheet 13For Gath-rimmon, Conder suggests Gath; but this he identifies with Tell-es-Safi, which is well within the territory of Judah (to the south of sheet 16).
Me-jarkon, “the yellow water,” is thought to be the river ’Aujeh (sheet 13), and Rakkon, Tell-er-Rakkeit, to the north of the mouth of it. Japho is Jaffa, on the same sheet.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain 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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