Joshua 15:42

_LIBNAH, AND ETHER, AND ASHAN,_ Libnah, х_ LIBNAAH_ (H3841), whiteness; Septuagint, Lebna]. It stood on the plain between Makkedah and Lachish, a little northwest of Lachish. ETHER, х_ `ETER_ (H6281) (see the note at 1 Chronicles 4:32); Septuagint, Ithak] - not known. ASHAN, х_ `AASHAAN_ (H6227) (or Chorashan, 1 Samuel 30:30)]. Eusebius describes it as 16 (and Jerome as 15) miles west from Jerusalem: unknown....

20-63 Here is a list of the cities of Judah. But we do not here find Bethlehem, afterwards the city of David, and ennobled by the birth of our Lord Jesus in it. That city, which, at the best, was but little among the thousands of Judah, Micah 5:2, except that it was thus honoured, was now so little as not to be accounted one of the cities....

Verse 42. _LIBNAH_] Joshua 10:29. _ETHER_] From Joshua 19:7 we learn that this city was afterwards given to the tribe of _Simeon_....

List of the towns of the tribe of Judah. These are arranged in four divisions, according to the natural features of the district; namely,, those of the Negeb or south country Joshua 15:21; of “the valley,” or “the plain” (“Shephelah”, Joshua 15:33); of “the mountains” Joshua 15:48; and of “the wilderness” Joshua 15:61. Many of the identifications are still conjectural only. Joshua 15:21. The Negeb was for the most part rocky and arid, and cannot have been at any time very thickly popul

EXPOSITION THE LOT OF JUDAH. JOSHUA 15:1 THE LOT OF THE TRIBE OF THE CHILDREN OF JUDAH. The first twelve verses of this chapter define the boundaries of Judah. With it compare Numbers 34:3, which gives the southern border of the Israelitish territory, corresponding closely with this account of the southern border of Judah. The word _tribe _here is, as might be expected from the context מַטֶה and not שֶּׁבֶט. EVEN TO THE BORDER OF EDOM. The literal translation, which makes the passage clearer, is, "the border of Edom, the wilderness of Zin towards the dry region (נֶגְבָּה) from the extreme limit of the south תֵימָן. The latter of these words, derived from יָמִי

LIBNAH,.... Here begins another division or list of the cities of Judah, in the valley or plain. Libnah is the same with Libnah, a royal city; see Joshua 10:29; AND ETHER was given to the tribe of Simeon, Joshua 19:7; and under Ether of the lot of Simeon, Jerom writes y, there is now a very large village called Jethira, in interior Daroma, near Malatha, twenty miles from Eleutheropolis; AND ASHAN also was given to the tribe of Simeon, Joshua 19:7; and the above writer relates z, that there was in his times a village called Bethasan, belonging to Aelia, or Jerusalem, fifteen miles from it. y De loc. Heb. fol. 91. C. 92. I. z De loc. Heb. fol. 88. G....

3. THE PORTION OF JUDAH CHAPTER 15 _ 1. The south-border of Judah's portion (Joshua 15:1)_ 2. The eastern and northern border (Joshua 15:5) 3. The western border (Joshua 15:12) 4. Caleb's conquest (Joshua 15:13) 5. Inheritance according to families (Joshua 15:20) This is a chapter which contains many names; nearly one hundred and fifty are recorded. With the help of a good concordance, or dictionary of Hebrew names, the English meaning may be ascertained. However, many of these names may be derived from

JOSHUA 15:1 reads rather confusedly. The statement is made that the following is the inheritance of Israel a late writer, wishing to be more exact, says the 9½ tribes, and then proceeds to point out how the number 9½ was obtained....

Cities in the Lowland 33. _in the valley_ i.e. the Lowland. See above, Joshua 15:20, and also Joshua 10:40; Joshua 11:16. The places mentioned are arranged in _four groups_. The first of these lies in the _north-eastern_portion of the _Shephêlah: _ Group I. 1. _Eshtaol_= _Yeshû"a_; 2. _Zoreah_= _Sûrah_, the residence of Manoah (Judges 13:2; Judges 13:25) and the native place of Samson. It lay close to Eshtaol. Here Samson spent his boyhood, and to a spot between the two places his dead body was brought after h

_Cities of Judah Joshua 15:20-63_ 20 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families. 21 And the uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of Judah toward the coast of Edom southward were Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur, 22 And Kinah, and Dimonah, and Adadah, 23 And Kedesh, and Hazor, and Ithnan, 24 Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth, 25 And Hazor, Hadattah, and Kerioth, and Hezron, which is Hazor, 26 Amam, and Shema, and Moladah, 27 And Hazar-gaddah, and Heshmon, and Beth-palet, 28 And Hazar-shual, and Beer-sheba, and Bizjothjah, 29 Baalah, and Iim, and Azem, 30 And Eltolad, and Chesil, and Hormah, 31 And Ziklag, and Madmannah, and Sansannah, 32 And Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the cities are twenty and nine, with their villages: 32 And in the valley, Eshtaol, and Zoreah, and Ashnah,