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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Joshua 19:32-39

Naphtali lay furthest north of all the tribes, bordering on Mount Libanus. The city of Leshem, or Liash, lay on the utmost edge of it to the north, and therefore when the Danites had made themselves masters of it, and called it Dan, the length of Canaan from north to south was reckoned from Dan to Beersheba. It had Zebulun on the south, Asher on the west, and Judah upon Jordan, probably a city of that name, and so distinguished from the tribe of Judah on the east. It was in the lot of this... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 19:35

And the fenced cities are Ziddim ,.... The later name of Ziddim, according to the Talmud F9 Ut supra. (T. Hieros. Megillah, fol. 70. 1.) , was Cepharchitiya, or the village of wheat, perhaps from the large quantity or goodness of wheat there: Zer is called by Jerom F11 De loc. Heb. fol. 95. A. Sor, and interpreted Tyre, the metropolis of Phoenicia, very wrongly, and, in the tribe of Naphtali: and Hammath probably was built by the youngest son of Canaan, Genesis 10:18 ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 19:36

And Adamah ,.... Adamah is different from Adami, Joshua 19:33 ; and may seem to confirm the notion of some, that Nekeb there is an epithet of it, and so distinguishes it from Adamah here: and Ramah ; of Ramah, as there were several places of this name; see Gill on Joshua 19:29 , and Hazor was a royal city, of which; see Gill on Joshua 11:1 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 19:37

And Kedesh ,.... This is Kedesh in Galilee, in Mount Naphtali, to distinguish it from others of the same name; it was one of the cities of refuge, Joshua 20:7 . Jerom says F13 Ut supra, (De loc. Heb.) fol. 90. B. in his day it was called Cidissus, and was twenty miles from Tyre by Paneas; See Gill on Joshua 12:22 . and Edrei is a different place from one of that name in the kingdom of Og, Numbers 21:33 , and Enhazor , of which we read nowhere else. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 19:38

And Iron ,.... Of Iron no mention is made elsewhere: and Migdalel , which Jerom calls Magdiel, he says F13 De loc. Heb. fol. 93. L. was shown a small village, five miles from Dara, as you go to Ptolemais: and Horem is not mentioned anywhere elsewhere; and Bethanath ; Jerom also relates F14 Ibid. fol. 89. H. , that Bathana, in the tribe of Naphtali, was a village that went by the name of Betbanes, fifteen miles from Caesarea: and Bethshemesh was another city, in... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 19:38

Nineteen cities - But if these cities be separately enumerated they amount to twenty-three; this is probably occasioned by reckoning frontier cities belonging to other tribes, which are only mentioned here as the boundaries of the tribe. See on Joshua 19:30 ; (note). read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 19:1-51

The completion of the work. The reflections suggested by this chapter are identical with those which have already occurred to us. They are, perhaps, emphasised by Joshua 19:51 , in which the solemn public division of the land is once more, and yet more plainly, declared to have taken place with the assent of the heads of Church and State, and to have been attended with a religious ceremony. Without pretending to say whose fault it is, or how such a desirable state of things may be once... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 19:35

And the fenced cities. The remark is made in the 'Speaker's Commentary' that the number of fenced cities in the north were no doubt owing to a determination to protect the northern boundary of Israel by a chain of fortresses. The word fenced is the same that is rendered strong in Joshua 19:29 , "the strong city Tyre." Chinnereth (see Joshua 11:2 ). read more

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