Joshua 15:8

_AND THE BORDER WENT UP BY THE VALLEY OF THE SON OF HINNOM UNTO THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE JEBUSITE; THE SAME IS JERUSALEM: AND THE BORDER WENT UP TO THE TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN THAT LIETH BEFORE THE VALLEY OF HINNOM WESTWARD, WHICH IS AT THE END OF THE VALLEY OF THE GIANTS NORTHWARD:_ The valley of the giants - better rendered as a local proper name, "the valley of Rephaim" (2 Samuel 5:18; 2 Samuel 5:22; 2 Samuel 23:13; Isaiah 17:5). From the top х_ MEERO'SH_ (H7218), the head or end] of the hill it extended along the bottom of the valley of Jehoshaphat to the water of Nephtoa

1-12 Joshua allotted to Judah, Ephraim, and the half of Manasseh, their inheritances before they left Gilgal. Afterwards removing to Shiloh, another survey was made, and the other tribes had their portion assigned. In due time all God's people are settled....

Verse Joshua 15:8. _THE VALLEY OF THE SON OF HINNOM_] Who Hinnom was is not known, nor why this was called _his_ valley. It was situated on the east of Jerusalem; and is often mentioned in Scripture. The image of the idol Molech appears to have been set up there; and there the idolatrous Israelites caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire in honour of that demon, 2 Kings 23:10. It was also called _Tophet_, see Jeremiah 7:32. When King Josiah removed the image of this idol from this valley, it appears to have been held in such universal execration, that it became the general receptacle of all the filth and impurities which were carried out of Jerusalem; and it is supposed that continual fir...

THE VALLEY OF THE SON OF HINNOM - This valley begins on the west of Jerusalem at the road to Joppa, and turning southeastward round the foot of Mount Zion joins the deeper valley of Kedron on the south of the city. It was in this ravine, more particularly at Tophet in the more wild and precipitous part of it toward the east, that the later kings of Judah offered the sacrifices of children to Moloch (2Ch 28:3; 2 Chronicles 33:6, etc.). After these places had been defiled by Josiah, Tophet and the whole valley of Hinnom were held in abomination by the Jews, and the name of the latter was used to denote the place of eternal torment Matthew 5:22. The Greek term Gehenna (γεέννα gee

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

AND THE BORDER WENT UP BY THE VALLEY OF THE SON OF HINNOM,.... Which belonged to a man of that name formerly; and was near Jerusalem, placed by Jerom l to the east of it; but Reland m rather thinks it is to the south. It was infamous for the sacrifices of children to Moloch in it, by burning them, or causing them to pass through fire: hence, in allusion to it, hell fire is often in the New Testament called "Geenna", Matthew 5:22 Luke 12:5; this border from the salt sea, and from Jordan, is all along said to "go up", because from hence to Jerusalem was an ascent, that lying on higher ground: UNTO THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE JEBUSITE; of the place the Jebusite inhabited: THE SAME IS JERUSALEM; which was formerly called Jebus, from the inhabitants of it; yea, Jebusi, as h

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....

HINNOM. Some codices, with three early printed editions, and Syriac, read the sons of Hinnom". GIANTS. the _Rephaim._ See note on Joshua 12:4...

_and the border went up_ From En-rogel the border _went up into the valley of the son of Hinnom, on the south side of the Jebusite, that is Jerusalem_. The direction accordingly runs S. S. W. of Jerusalem, where the valley mentioned lies. Nothing is known of this Hinnom. Possibly he was some ancient hero, who had encamped here, and from whom it was called "_Ge-Ben-Hinnom_," "the Ravine of the son of Hinnom," whence came "Ge-Hinnom," and so "Gehenna." It is a deep retired glen, shut in by rugged cliffs, with the bleak mountain-sides rising over all. Here (_a_) Solomon erected high places for Moloch (1 Kings 11:7), and (_b_) in the times of Ahaz and Manasseh it became notorious as the scene of the barbarous rites of that deity and of Chemosh, when the idolatrous inhabitants of Jerusalem cast their sons and daughters into the red-hot arms of a monster idol of brass placed at th