Joshua 19:29

_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:_ And then the coast turneth to Ramah - now el-Hamra, which stood where the Leontes (Litany) ends its southern course, and flows westward. AND TO THE STRONG CITY TYRE. The original city appears to have stood on the mainland, and was well fortified. This is the first Scriptural notice of Tyre, which was of later origin than Zidon (Hengstenberg, 'De reb Tyr.,' pp. 6, 7). From Tyre the boundary ran to Hosah, an inland town; and then passing the unconquered district of Achzib or Ecdippa, which was above the thirty-third degree of north, latitude, and about fifteen miles north of Accho (Judges 1:31), terminated at the seacoast (see Michaelis, 'Commentary on the West Boundary of the Promised Land')....

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 29. _THE STRONG CITY TYRE_] I suspect this to be an improper translation. Perhaps the words of the original should be retained: _And the coast turneth to Ramah and to the city_, מבצר צר mibtsar _tsor_. Our translators have here left the _Hebrew_, and followed the _Septuagint_ and _Vulgate_, a fault of which they are sometimes guilty. The former render the place ̔ως πολεως οχυρωματος των Τυριων, _unto the fortified city of the Tyrians_. The Vulgate is nearly the same: _ad civitatem munitissimam Tyrum, to the_ _well-fortified city Tyre_; but this must be incorrect for the famous city of Tyre was not known tiil about A.M. 2760, about two hundred years after the days of Joshua. Homer, who frequently mentions _Sidon_ and the _Sidonians_, never mentions _Tyre_; a proof that this afterwards very eminent city was not then known. Homer is allowed by some to have flourished in the time of J...

These verses refer to the northern portion of the territory of Asher, on the Phoenician frontier. Some names may have dropped out of the text, the number Joshua 19:30 not tallying with the catalogue. Ramah still retains its ancient name, and lies about twelve miles southeast of Tyre. Achzib is the modern “Zib,” on the coast, eight or nine miles north of Acre....

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 [THEN] THE COAST TURNETH TO RAMAH,.... Which was a city in the tribe of Naphtali, Joshua 19:36; and on the borders of Asher; though Jerom y distinguishes them, and speaks of a Ramah in Asher, and another in Naphtali, as different cities of the same name; as there were several of this name, so called from their being built on an eminence. Masius conjectures it is the same with Sarepta, Luke 4:26; famous for its wine; and Bacchus, as the poet says, loves the hills: AND TO THE STRONG CITY TYRE; it is thought this is not to be understood of the famous city, so much spoken of in other parts of Scripture, and in profane history; since, as it is observed, that is not mentioned in Scripture until the times of David; and though Homer makes frequent mention of Sidon, yet never of Tyre. The words signi

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._ 29. _THEN THE COAST TURNETH TO RAMAH,_ &C.— There were several cities of this name in Palestine. Masius supposes the present to be the same as was afterwards called Zarepta. _Ramah_ signifies _high, elevated;_ and such, it seems, was the situation of Zarepta, celebrated for its vineyards, which evidently suppose an elevated situation. _AND TO THE STRONG CITY TYRE_— So the LXX and Vulgate, followed by a variety of interpreters, translate the clause. Sidon is much spoken of in the Books of Moses, and even in Jacob's prophesies: the famous city of Tyre was not in being till the time of David. Homer, who makes frequent mention of Sidon, and the Sidonians, nowhere takes notice of the Tyrians. The sacred writer in this place, therefore, must have intended to point out some other city of the same name; there were four different places in Phoenicia called Tyre. Perhaps the historian here...