Joshua 17:1
A LOT. the lot. Compare Joshua 16:1, above. FIRSTBORN OF JOSEPH. Genesis 41:51; Genesis 46:20; Genesis 50:23. Nah 32:39. MAN. Hebrew. _ish_. App-14.... [ Continue Reading ]
A LOT. the lot. Compare Joshua 16:1, above. FIRSTBORN OF JOSEPH. Genesis 41:51; Genesis 46:20; Genesis 50:23. Nah 32:39. MAN. Hebrew. _ish_. App-14.... [ Continue Reading ]
CHILDREN. sons.... [ Continue Reading ]
ZELOPHEHAD. Compare Numbers 26:33; Numbers 27:1; Numbers 36:2. BUT. but [only]: or "but [he had]". MILCAH. Some codices, with three early printed editions, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "and Milcah".... [ Continue Reading ]
ELEAEAR THE PRIEST. His presence necessary for the casting of lots, with the Urim and Thummim. See notes on Exodus 28:30 and Numbers 26:55. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah_. App-4. MOSES. Some codices, with three early printed editions, Septuagint, and Vulgate, read "by the hand of Moses": "hand" being... [ Continue Reading ]
THERE FELL: i.e. by lot. Compare Joshua 17:1, and note.... [ Continue Reading ]
OUTGOINGS. utmost limits. English idiom.... [ Continue Reading ]
TOWNS Hebrew daughters. Figure of speech _Prosopopoeia_ (App-6). villages.... [ Continue Reading ]
COULD NOT DRIVE OUT. Compare Joshua 15:63; Joshua 16:10. and see Exodus 23:31.Deuteronomy 7:2, &c.... [ Continue Reading ]
CHILDREN OF JOSEPH. sons of Joseph, i.e. Manasseh. Note their selfishness, so well reproved by Joshua (verses: Joshua 17:15), who was of that tribe himself. PORTION. Hebrew "line", put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), for the territory marked out by it (App-6). FORASMUCH. to such. degree... [ Continue Reading ]
CUT DOWN. carve out, or create as in Genesis 1:1. GIANTS. Hebrew. _Rephaim_. See note on Numbers 13:22.Deuteronomy 1:28, and App-23 and App-25.... [ Continue Reading ]