Joshua 18:23

_AND AVIM, AND PARAH, AND OPHRAH,_ Avim, [Septuagint, Aiein] - probably a corruption of Ai. PARAH, [Septuagint, Fara]. Jerome ('Onomast.') says it stood 5 miles off Bethel. OPHRAH, [Septuagint, Efratha] (cf. 1 Samuel 13:17) - said by Eusebius and Jerome ('Onomast.') to have been 5 Roman miles east of Beth-el; and supposed by Robinson ('Biblical Researches,' 2:, p. 125) to be identified in et-Taiyibeh....

11-28 The boundaries of each portion were distinctly drawn, and the inheritance of each tribe settled. All contests and selfish claims were prevented by the wise appointment of God, who allotted the hill and the valley, the corn and pasture, the brooks and rivers, the towns and cities. Is the lot of any servant of Christ cast in affliction and sorrow? It is the Lord; let him do what seemeth him good. Are we in prosperity and peace? It is from above. Be humbled when you compare the gift with your own unworthiness. Forget not Him that gave the good, and always be ready to resign it at his command....

See the marginal references. There are many indications found in this and the next chapter that the text is in great disorder, and many of the places are still unknown. Joshua 18:14 AND COMPASSED THE CORNER ... - Render “and turned on the west side southward.” The meaning is, that at lower Beth-horon the northern boundary-line of Benjamin curved round and ran southward - Beth-horon being its extreme westerly point. Joshua 18:21 The “Valley of Keziz,” or “Emek-Keziz,” is perhaps the “Wady el Kaziz,” at no great distance east of Jerusalem. Joshua 18:22 Zemaraim, i. e.

EXPOSITION THE CONTINUED DIVISION OF THE LAND.— JOSHUA 18:1 CONGREGATION. The word signifies a body of persons gathered together at a spot before indicated. The LXX. renders by συναγωγή. The idea is evidently that of an assembly gathered together for some specific acts of worship. This passage teaches the duty of a national recognition of religion. Whatever evils there might be in Israel at that time, the absence of a general and formal acknowledgment of God was not one of them. When that public acknowledgment of Him ceased, the downfall of the nation was at hand. It was the absence of such acknowledgment that was the ruin of Israel, while the hypocritical and purely external recognition of God by Judah was equally o

AND AVIM, AND PARAH,.... Of the two first of these we read nowhere else; AND OPHRAH is not the same with Ophrah in Judges 6:11; that belonged to the tribe of Manasseh, but rather that which was in the land of Shuah, 1 Samuel 13:17. Jerom calls this place Aphrah, in the tribe of Benjamin, and says o, in his time there was a village called Effrem, five miles from Bethel to the east, which very probably is the same with this. o De loc. Heb. fol. 88. H....

6. THE PORTION OF THE REST OF THE TRIBES CHAPTER 18 _ 1. The tabernacle at Shiloh (Joshua 18:1)_ 2. The remaining seven tribes (Joshua 18:2) 3. The lot of Benjamin (Joshua 18:11) The tabernacle of the congregation is now set up at Shiloh. Shiloh means “peace,” “security.” The land was then subdued before them. Shiloh is now the center. From there the operations proceed. Seven times after this Shiloh is mentioned in the book of Joshua: Joshua 18:8; Joshua 19:51;...

The Cities of Benjamin 21. _Now the cities_ The cities here enumerated fall into two groups, (_a) the first_of _twelve_lying on the _east_, (_b) the second_of _fourteen_lying on the _west_. 1. _Jericho_ see note above, Joshua 2:1. 2. _Beth-hoglah_, see note above, Joshua 15:6. 3. _The valley of Keziz_, this is not exactly known....

THE SECOND ALLOTMENT. INTRODUCTION. THE TERRITORY OF BENJAMIN 1-10. These vv supply an introduction to the second allotment in general, and agree with the passages which, in common with Judges 1, view the conquest as gradual and partial. The seven tribes still hang back through 'slackness' (Joshua 18:3), while Judah and Joseph are already in possession....

COME IN, AND RECEIVE GOD’S PROMISES! JOSHUA _BRIAN ROWLANDS_ Maps to help you to study this book are on the Internet at www.easyenglish.info. CHAPTER 18 V1 All the *Israelites met together at Shiloh. There they erected the *Tent of Meeting. They now ruled all the land. V2 But Joshua still had not given to 7 *tribes a part of the land for themselves. V3 Joshua said to them, ‘The *Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you the land. You should not wait any longer before you take it.’ V4 Choose three men from each *tribe. I will send them to look at all the land. And they shall see what it is like. They must say what

THE INHERITANCE OF BENJAMIN. (11-28) THE LOT OF THE TRIBE OF THE CHILDREN OF BENJAMIN. — It can have been by no accident that their lot came forth “between Judah and Joseph.” No wiser method could have been devised to secure an united Israel than thus to make Benjamin the link between the two most powerful and naturally rival tribes. In the story of Joseph, the brethren are reconciled through the mutual affection of Judah and Joseph for Benjamin as their father’s youngest and best-loved son. The position thus given to Benjamin under Joshua was still further developed by circumstances. The tribe was almost exterminated in the time of the judges; the survivors were united in marriage with women of Ephraim and Manasseh (?). On the other hand, the city of Jerusalem, although assigned by Joshua to Benjamin, was first a joint possession of Judah and Benjamin (1 Chronicles 8