Asher didn’t drive out the inhabitants of Acco, nor the inhabitants of Sidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor of Aphik, nor of Rehob;
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Asher didn’t drive out the inhabitants of Acco, nor the inhabitants of Sidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor of Aphik, nor of Rehob;
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Neither did Asher drive out the inhabitants of Accho, nor the inhabitants of Zidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor of Aphik, nor of Rehob:
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Asher drove not out the inhabitants of Acco, nor the inhabitants of Zidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor of Aphik, nor of Rehob;
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- Joshua 19:24-30 The fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families. Their border was Helkath, Hali, Beten, Achshaph, Allammelech, Amad, Mishal. It reached to Carmel westward, and to Shihorlibnath. It turned toward the sunrise to Beth Dagon, and reached to Zebulun, and to the valley of Iphtah El northward to Beth Emek and Neiel. It went out to Cabul on the left hand, and Ebron, Rehob, Hammon, and Kanah, even to great Sidon. The border turned to Ramah, to the fortified city of Tyre; and the border turned to Hosah. It ended at the sea by the region of Achzib; Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty-two cities with their villages.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Neither did Asher drive out the inhabitants of Accho,....…
Neither did Asher drive out the inhabitants of Accho,.... The same with Ptolemais; see Gill on Act 21:7; so called from the first Ptolemy king of Egypt, who enlarged it; but it has since recovered its ancient name pretty nearly, and is now called Acca or Acra."On its north and east sides (Mr. Maundrell says (w)) it is encompassed with a spacious and fertile plain; on the west it is washed by the Mediterranean sea; and on the south by a large bay, extending from the city as far as Mount Carmel:"
nor the inhabitants of Zidon; a well known city in Phoenicia, belonging to this tribe, see Jos 19:28,
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nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor Helbah, nor Aphik, nor of Rehob; two of these places, Ahlab and Helbah, are not mentioned among the cities of the tribe of Asher, Jos 19:24; unless Helbah is the same with Helkath, Jdg 1:25; of the rest, Achzib; see Gill on Jos 19:29, Aphik, and Rehob; see Gill on Jos 19:30.
(w) Journey from Aleppo, p. 54.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 31. Neither did Asher] See on Jos 19:24-31.
Verse 31. Neither did Asher] See on Jos 19:24-31.
Accho] Supposed to be the city of Ptolemais, near to Mount Carmel.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Compare the marginal reference. Accho, afterward called Ptolemais, now…
Compare the marginal reference. Accho, afterward called Ptolemais, now Akka or St. Jean d’Acre, is named here for the first time.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Accho. Hebrew haco. The Greeks not knowing the derivation…
Accho. Hebrew haco. The Greeks not knowing the derivation of this word, supposed that the city was so called from ake, "a remedy," as they pretend that Hercules was cured in this place. It was also called Ptolemais, after the king of Egypt. The little river Belus, and the famous bed of sand so proper for making glass, were in the neighbourhood. (Pliny, [Natural History?] v. 19.) --- Ahalab. The situation is unknown, unless it be Aleppo. They say it is the famous city of Berea. (Calmet)
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 31. Accho is a flourishing seaport on a bay…
31. Accho is a flourishing seaport on a bay of the same name, just north of Mount Carmel. It was named Ptolemais, in honour of one of the Ptolemies. Its modern name is Acre. It contains a mixed population of five thousand. On Zidon, or great Sidon, see Jos_11:8. “The district of Sidon,” says Wilkins, “had apparently been included in the earliest scheme of conquest. But it had not fallen to the lot of either of the two most powerful and warlike tribes — Judah and Ephraim; it was destined for the feebler and less energetic Asher, Zebulun, Issachar, and Naphtali. The impetuous rush of the hardy warriors of the desert, thirsting for the blessings of the Promised Land, had spent itself in early efforts, and the northern tribes were well contented with the marvellous fertility of the plain of Esdraelon, which probably furnished abundant supplies for their scanty numbers. The Phenicians would, on the other hand, have the strongest inducements to live on terms of amity with their new neighbours. The great lines of traffic with Egypt, Arabia, Babylon, and Assyria, were in the hands of the invaders, and any hostilities with them must necessarily have caused a ruinous suspension of commerce.” — Phenicia and Israel. Ahlab is named in this place only. In Jos_19:29, this name is wanting; but the word Cheleb, translated coast, is, in the opinion of Fuerst, the name of the town here written Ahlab. Its site is unknown, as is also Helbah.
Achzib — Jos_19:29, note. Aphik is written Aphek in Jos_13:4, where see note. Rehob is not identified.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 31. Asher] dwelt in a productive strip of country…
31. Asher] dwelt in a productive strip of country (Gen_49:20), extending northwards from Carmel along the sea-coast (Jdg_5:17) to Phoenicia; P indicates the boundaries in Jos_19:24-31, but not many of the places can be identified. Occupying an indefinite territory between the Phoenicians and the tribes of Naphtali and Zebulun, the Asherites seem to have been only partially identified with Israel; historically their importance was small, they took no part in the combination against Sisera (Jdg_5:17), and here it is implied that they could not hold their own against the older population. In the period of Seti I and Ramses II Egyptian sources mention ’A-sa-ru, a somewhat vigorous state located in the ‘Hinterland’ of S. Phoenicia up to the Lebanon, the very district occupied by the tribe of Asher. ’Asaru is simply the Egyptian form of Asher; but until fresh discoveries reveal the nature of the connexion between the two, no safe conclusions can be drawn for purposes of history. It has been supposed that some part of the Israelite nation, at any rate the tribe of Asher, was resident in Palestine under the 18th Dynasty, i.e. circ. 1400 b.c., before the time of Moses. See W. Max Müller, Asien u. Europa, p. 236 ff.
Acco] is the mod. ‘Akka (so in the Amarna tablets nos. 157–9), the S. Jean d’Acre of the Crusaders, N. of Carmel on the coast; in Act_21:7 it is called Ptolemais, probably after Ptolemy II. This is the southernmost point on the coast in the present list; the northernmost is Zidon, the mod. Ṣaida, called Ziduna in the Am. tablets (nos. 147, 149, 150 f.), the famous Phoenician city. The Phoenicians are called Zidonians in the O.T., Jdg_3:3, 1Ki_11:5; they were never subjected by Israel. It is significant that Tyre, which is situated between these two points, is not mentioned.
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Ahlab] is probably only another form of Helbah, of which a third form is Mahalab Jos_19:29 (read ‘from Mahalab to Achzib’). It seems to be the place called Maḫalliba by Sennacherib (Taylor Cyl. COT, 288), who mentions Achzib and Acco in the same line. It is conjectured (Moore) that this was the old name of Râs el-Abyaḍ, the ‘promontorium album’ of Pliny, three hours S. of Tyre.
Achzib] called Ecdippa by the classical geographers, is the mod. ez-Zîb, 2½ hours N. of ‘Akka on the coast; Jos_19:29.
Aphik … Rehob] Jos_19:30, not uncommon names; in this region they have not been identified. Rehob (Josh. ib., Jos_21:31; 1Ch_6:75) may be the Egyptian Raḥubu, N. of the Kishon (Müller, As. u. Eur., p. 153); it is probable that both places were inland, not on the coast.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (31) Neither did Asher.—See Jos_19:24-31.
(31) Neither did Asher.—See Jos_19:24-31.
Accho.—The seaport so famous under the names of Ptolemais (Act_21:7; 1Ma_5:15; 1Ma_10:1), Acre, and St. Jean d’Acre (now Acca). Josephus called it Ako (Antt. ix. 14, § 2).
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Zidon.—(Jos_11:8.) Asher never succeeded in conquering Zidon, which was the capital of Phœnicia, though eclipsed by its neighbour Tyre. (2Sa_5:11; Isaiah 23; Jeremiah 27, 47; Mat_11:22, &c.) It is now called Saida.
Ahlab.—An unknown town.
Achzib.—(See Jos_19:29.) Better known as Ecdippa (Jos. B. J. i. 13, § 4), the modern Zib, about nine miles north of Akka. There was a less well-known Achzib in Judah (Chezib)—Gen_38:5; Mic_1:14; Jos_15:44.
Helbah.—The name is rendered “the coast” in Jos_19:29. The site is unknown.
Aphik.—The Aphek of Jos_19:30, now Afka (Robinson, Bible Res., 3:606). The name means “strength.” It was famous for a Temple of Venus, destroyed by Constantine. (Euseb. Vit. Const.) There seems to have been another Aphek near Hebron. (Jos_12:18.)
Rehob.—A Levitical city (Jos_21:31; 1Ch_6:75).
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Asher did not drive
Asher did not drive
Here "Asher" represents the men or the soldiers of the tribe of Asher. (See: Metonymy)
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Akko ... Sidon ... Ahlab, Akzib, Helbah, Aphek ... Rehob
These are names of cities in the land of Canaan. (See: How to Translate Names)
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Asher
cast out
life
Sidon
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