Joshua 19:43

_AND ELON, AND THIMNATHAH, AND EKRON,_ Elon, х_ Wª-'EEYLOWN_ (H356), an oak]. It probably stood in a well-wooded region. THIMNATHAH - or Timnah and Timnath (portion), now Tibneh, about an hour's distance southwest from Zorah (Robinson's 'Biblical Researches,' 2:, p. 343; Porter's 'Handbook,' pp. 282, 368). EKRON - now 'Akir (see the note at Joshua 13:3; Joshua 15:45)....

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 43. _THIMNATHAH_] Probably the same as Timnah. Joshua 15:57. _EKRON_] A well-known city of the Philistines and the metropolis of one of their _five_ dynasties,...

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 ELON,.... Of Elon no mention is made elsewhere; AND THIMNATHAH is a different place from Timnah in the tribe of Judah, Joshua 15:10. Jerom s speaks of the Thamnitic country, so called from the village Thamna, which seems to be this; AND EKRON was one of the five principalities of the Philistines, and never possessed by the Israelites; it first fell by lot to the tribe of Judah, and afterwards given to the tribe of Dan, Joshua 15:45. s De loc. Heb. fol. 88. E....

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 Dan 40. _the seventh lot_ came out to the smallest of all the tribes, that of Dan, descended from the fifth son of Jacob. The position of the tribe during the march through the wilderness had been on the north side of the Tabernacle, the hindmost of the long procession between Naphtali and Asher. At the census in the desert it was the most numerous of all the tribes with the exception of Judah, containing 62,700 men able to bear arms....

_VER._ 43. _ELON,—THIMNATHAH,—EKRON_— _Elon_ is thought to be the same with _Holon,_ mentioned ch. Joshua 15:51. _Thimnathah,_ seems to be a different place from _Timnath,_ spoken of in the same chap. ver. 10 and 57. For, as we read in Joshua 14:5 that Samson _went down_ to this city, which shews it to have been in a valley; so in Genesis 11:13 we read that Judah _went up_ to Timnath to shear his sheep, which shews that city to have been upon a hill. _Ekron,_ the capital of the Philistines, was at first given to the tribe of Judah. See ch. Joshua 15:45....

_The Inheritance of Dan Joshua 19:40-48_ 40 And the seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families. 41 And the coast of their inheritance was Zorah, and Eshtaol, and Ir-shemesh, 42 And Shaalabbin, and Ajalon, and Jethlah, 43 And Elon, and Thimnathah, and Ekron, 44 And Eltekeh, and Gibbethon, and Baalath, 45 And Jehud, and Bene-berak, and Gath-rimmon, 46 And Me-jarkon, and Rakkon, with the border before Japho. 47 And the coast of the children of Dan went out too little for them: therefore the children of Dan went up to fight against Leshem, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and dwelt therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their father. 48 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families, these cities with their villages....