Joshua 19:15 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Joshua 19:10-16

This is the lot of Zebulun, who, though born of Leah after Issachar, yet was blessed by Jacob and Moses before him; and therefore it was so ordered that his lot was drawn before that of Issachar, north of which it lay and south of Asher. 1. The lot of this tribe was washed by the great sea on the west, and by the sea of Tiberias on the east, answering Jacob's prophecy (Gen. 49:13), Zebulun shall be a haven of ships, trading ships on the great sea and fishing ships on the sea of Galilee. 2.... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 19:15

And Kattath, and Nahallal ,.... Of the two first of these we read nowhere else, but in Joshua 21:34 , and Shimron was a royal city, the king of which Joshua took and hanged, Joshua 11:1 , and Idalah is a place Bochart conjectures F20 Canaan, l. 1. c. 3. col. 356. where the goddess Venus was worshipped, Idalia being one of her names: and Bethlehem is a different place from that which was the birthplace of our Lord, called Bethlehem of Judah, to distinguish it from this: ... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 19:15

Shimron - See on Joshua 12:20 ; (note). Beth-lehem - The house of bread; a different place from that in which our Lord was born. 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 19:15

Beth-lehem . This name, signifying the "house of bread," would naturally enough be given to a place in a fertile situation. We are not to suppose that it was "Bethlehem-Ephratah, among the thousands of Jadah" ( Micah 5:2 ). It is now Beit-lahm, about eight miles in a westerly direction from Nazareth. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Joshua 19:15

Twelve cities - Only five have been mentioned, and the names in the verses preceding are apparently not names of Zebulonite cities, but merely of points in or near the boundary line. It would therefore appear that seven names have disappeared from the text, and perhaps also the definition of the western frontier. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Joshua 19:15

Joshua 19:15. Beth-lehem Not that where Christ was born, which was in Judah, but another. Twelve cities They are more numerous here, but the rest either were not cities, properly so called, or were not within this tribe, but only bordering upon it, and belonging to other tribes. read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Joshua 19:1-51

The seven smaller tribes (18:1-19:51)Allotments were now finished for two and a half tribes on the east of Jordan (Reuben, Gad and half of Manasseh) and two and a half tribes on the west (Judah, Ephraim and the other half of Manasseh). The next task was to settle the seven smaller tribes that remained. For this purpose the camp, including the tabernacle, was shifted from Gilgal to a more central location at Shiloh (18:1-2; cf. 5:10; 10:6,15,43; 14:6; 19:51; 22:9,12).Many of the people had by... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Joshua 19:10-16

The inheritance of Zebulun 19:10-16Zebulun’s territory lay north of the plain of Jezreel that marked Manasseh’s northern border and southwest of the hills of Naphtali. On the northwest its neighbor was Asher and on the southeast Issachar. Zebulun’s land was very fertile. Zebulun received 12 towns, though the writer identified only five here (Joshua 19:15). read more