Joshua 19:27

_AND TURNETH TOWARD THE SUNRISING TO BETHDAGON, AND REACHETH TO ZEBULUN, AND TO THE VALLEY OF JIPHTHAH-EL TOWARD THE NORTH SIDE OF BETHEMEK, AND NEIEL, AND GOETH OUT TO CABUL ON THE LEFT HAND,_ To the valley of Jiphthah-el, [Septuagint, Ekgai kai Fthaieel] - identified with Jotapata, now Jefat, a village in the mountains of Galilee, midway between the lake of Gennesaret and the bay of Acre. The valley of Jiphthah-el is 'the wady which, commencing among the hills near Jefat, runs down westward into the plain of Akka, under the name of Wady Abilin. The border of Asher passed from Carmel until it met Zebulun' (Porter's 'Handbook,' 378)....

17-51 Joshua waited till all the tribes were settled, before he asked any provision for himself. He was content to be unfixed, till he saw them all placed, and herein is an example to all in public places, to prefer the common welfare before private advantage. Those who labour most to do good to others, seek an inheritance in the Canaan above: but it will be soon enough to enter thereon, when they have done all the service to their brethren of which they are capable. Nor can any thing more effectually assure them of their title to it, than endeavouring to bring others to desire, to seek, and to obtain it. Our Lord Jesus came and dwelt on earth, not in pomp but poverty, providing rest for man, yet himself not having where to lay his head; for Christ pleased not himself. Nor would he enter upon his inheritance, till by his obedience to death he secured the eternal inheritance for all his...

Verse 27. _CABUL ON THE LEFT HAND_] That is, to the _north_ of Cabul, for so the _left hand_, when referring to _place_, is understood among the Hebrews. We must not confound this _town_ or _Cabul_ with the twenty cities given by Solomon to Hiram, with which he was displeased, and which in contempt he called _the land of Cabul_, the _dirty_ or _paltry land,_ 1 Kings 9:11: there was evidently a town of this name, widely different from the _land_ so called, long before the time of Solomon, and therefore this cannot be adduced as an argument that the book of Joshua was written after the days of David. The town in question is supposed to be the same which Josephus in his Life calls χωβουλω _Choboulo_, and which he says was situated by the sea-side, and nigh to Ptolemais. _De Bell. Jud_., lib. iii., c. 4....

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 TURNETH TOWARDS THE SUNRISING,.... Or eastward, TO BETHDAGON; there was a city of this name in the tribe of Judah, Joshua 15:41. Dagon, being a god of the Phoenicians, had temples built for him in various places in Canaan: AND REACHETH TO ZEBULUN; not the tribe of Zebulun, but a city so called, the same Josephus o calls a strong city of Galilee, which had the name of Men, perhaps from the populousness of it, and separated Ptolemais from Judea; AND TO THE VALLEY OF JIPHTHAHEL; see Joshua 19:14; TOWARD THE NORTH SIDE OF BETHEMEK; of Bethemek no mention is made elsewhere: perhaps here was an idol temple before dedicated to the god of the valleys; see...

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 Inheritance of the Tribe of Asher 24. _And the fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher_ who were descended from the eighth son of Jacob, and in the march through the desert closed the long procession side by side with Dan and Naphtali, with the standard of Dan, an "eagle with a serpent in its talons....

_VER._ 27. _AND GOETH OUT TO CABUL ON THE LEFT HAND_— That is, to the north of this city, according to the custom of the Hebrews in the designation of the four cardinal points. Some learned men have concluded from this passage, that the Book of Joshua could not have been written before Solomon's time, because, say they, the land of Cabul received its name from Hiram, king of Tyre, who called it so in contempt, 1 Kings 9:11.; but this is a manifest mistake: the question here is not about the _land of Cabul_ and its twenty cities, but about the _town of Cabul,_ near Ptolemais. Josephus plainly makes a distinction between them, who, in his life, and Hist. Jud. Bell. lib. 3: cap. 4 speaks of the city of _Chabul_ or _Chabolo._ See Huet. Demonst. Evang. prop. 4:...

_The Inheritance of Asher Joshua 19:24-31_ 24 And the fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families. 25 And their border was Helkath, and Hali, and Be-ten, and Achshaph, 26 And Alammelech, and Amad, and Misheal; and reacheth to Carmel westward, and to Shihor-labnath; 27 And turneth toward the sunrising to Beth-dagon, and reacheth to Zebulun, and to the valley of Jiphthah-el toward the north side of Beth-emek, and Neiel, and goeth out to Cabul on the left hand, 28 And Hebron, and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah, even unto great Zidon; 29 And then the coast turneth to Ramah, and to the strong city Tyre; and the coast turneth to Hosah; and the outgoings thereof are at the sea from the coast to Achzib: 30 Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty and two cities with their villages. 31 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the