Joshua 19:15

_AND KATTATH, AND NAHALLAL, AND SHIMRON, AND IDALAH, AND BETHLEHEM: TWELVE CITIES WITH THEIR VILLAGES._ Kattath, [Septuagint, Katanath] - is supposed by Schwarz to be the Cana of Galilee. NAHALLAL - or Nahalal (Joshua 21:35) [Septuagint, Nabaal]. SHIMRON, [Septuagint, Sumooon] - identified by Schwars with Simuniyeh (the Simonias of Josephus), a village situated a little west of Nazareth. IDALAH, [Septuagint, Hierichoo] - unknown. BETH-LEHEM, [Septuagint, Baithman] - now Beit-lahm, described by Robinson as about six miles west of Nazareth....

10-16 In the division to each tribe of Israel, the prophetic blessings of Jacob were fulfilled. They chose for themselves, or it was divided to them by lot, in the manner and places that he foresaw. So sure a rule to go by is the word of prophecy: we see by it what to believe, and it proves beyond all dispute the things that are of God....

Verse Joshua 19:15. _SHIMRON_] Joshua 12:20. _BETH-LEHEM_] The house of bread; a different place from that in which our Lord was born....

TWELVE CITIES - Only five have been mentioned, and the names in the verses preceding are apparently not names of Zebulonite cities, but merely of points in or near the boundary line. It would therefore appear that seven names have disappeared from the text, and perhaps also the definition of the western frontier....

EXPOSITION THE LOT OF THE REMAINING TRIBES. JOSHUA 19:1 AND THEIR INHERITANCE WAS WITHIN THE INHERITANCE OF THE CHILDREN OF JUDAH. Literally, _in the midst of. _ἀνὰ μέσον_, _LXX.; _in medio, _Vulgate (cf. Joshua 19:9). Simeon, at the last census (Numbers 26:14), was the smallest of the tribes of Israel, a fulfilment of the prophecy of Jacob, and possibly the result of the command given in Numbers 25:5, since the Simeonites were the chief offender

AND KATTATH, AND NAHALLAL,.... Of the two first of these we read nowhere else, but in Joshua 21:34; AND SHIMRON was a royal city, the king of which Joshua took and hanged, Joshua 11:1; AND IDALAH is a place Bochart conjectures t where the goddess Venus was worshipped, Idalia being one of her names; AND BETHLEHEM is a different place from that which was the birthplace of our Lord, called Bethlehem of Judah, to distinguish it from this: TWELVE CITIES WITH THEIR VILLAGES; more are named, but some of them belonged to other tribes, and only lay on the borders of this; and others might not be properly cities, but small towns. t Canaan, l. 1. c. 3. col. 356....

CHAPTER 19 _ 1. The inheritance of Simeon (Joshua 19:1)_ 2. The inheritance of Zebulun (Joshua 19:10) 3. The inheritance of Issachar (Joshua 19:17) 4. The inheritance of Asher (Joshua 19:24) 5. The inheritance of Naphtali (Joshua 19:32) 6. The inheritance of Dan (Joshua 19:40) 7. The inheritance of Joshua (Joshua 19:49)...

JOSHUA 19:6. Sharuhen is interesting as the city to which the Hyksos (pp. 52, 54) or Semitic Shepherd Kings fled when they were driven out of Egypt, and where they are said to have been besieged for six years (Driver, _Exodus_, p. xliii)....

The Territory of the Tribe of Zebulun 10. _And the third lot came up for the children of Zebulun_ The tribe descended from the tenth of the sons of Jacob (Genesis 30:19-20), and the sixth and last of the sons of Leah (Genesis 35:23; Genesis 46:14). During the journey from Egypt to Palestine, the tribe of Zebulun formed one of the first camp, with Judah and Issachar, also sons of Leah, marching under the standard of Judah. Its numbers at the census of Sinai were 57,000, surpassed only by Simeon, Dan, and Judah. _the border of their inheritance was unto Sarid_ A spot unknown, but believed to be somewhere inland, in the plain of Esdraelon, and west of Chisloth-tabor ("the loins of Tabor

_The Inheritance of Zebulun Joshua 19:10-16_ 10 And the third lot came up for the children of Zebulun according to their families: and the border of their inheritance was unto Sarid: 11 And their border went up toward the sea, and Maralah, and reached to Dabbasheth, and reached to the river that is before Jokneam; 12 And turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrising unto the border of Chisloth-tabor, and then goeth out to Daberath, and goeth up to Japhia, 13 And from thence passeth on along on the east to Gittah-hepher, to Ittah-kazin, and goeth out to Remmon-methoar to Neah; 14 And the border compasseth it on the north side to Hannathon: and the outgoings thereof are in the valley of Jiphthah-el: 15 And Kattath, and Nahallal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Beth-lehem: twelve cities with their villages. 16 This is the inheritance of the children of Zebulun accor