Verse 14
And the border was drawn thence ,.... From Bethhoron:
and compassed the corner of the sea southward ; it is hard to say what sea is meant, or what by it. Fuller F11 Pisgah Sight, B. 2. c. 12. p. 251. conjectures, that as the Hebrews call any confluence of water a sea, as we call such a "mere", the great waters in Gibeon may be meant, Jeremiah 41:12 ; for it cannot mean the Mediterranean sea, for Dan lay between Benjamin and that; and yet if a sea is meant, no other can be; wherefore it is best to render it the "west quarter", as it is in the latter part of this verse; and so the same word is translated, Joshua 18:12 ; the "west", and not the "sea", as it sometimes is; for the border of Benjamin did not reach the sea any where; though Josephus F12 Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 5. c. 1. sect. 22.) makes it to extend to it, and says, that the length of it was from the river Jordan to the sea:
the hill that lieth before Bethhoron southward ; the hill that lay to the south of nether Bethhoron, as in Joshua 18:13 ,
and the goings out thereof , the end of the western coast:
were at Kirjathbaal, which is Kirjathjearim, a city of the children of Judah ; of which see Joshua 15:9 ,
this was the west quarter ; as thus described.
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