Joshua 19:46

_AND MEJARKON, AND RAKKON, WITH THE BORDER BEFORE JAPHO._ Me-jarkon - waters of yellowness [Septuagint, apo thalassees Ierakoon]. The name was derived from a fountain or stream in the neighbourhood of the city. Van de Velde, following Schwarz, finds this place in the old ruin, Ras el-'Ain, over against Jaffa. RAKKON, х_ WªHAA-RAQOWN_ (H7542), the thinness; Septuagint includes the name of this and the preceding city under the same word, Ierakoon, which seems to indicate a mistaken repetition by a copyist]. The place is unknown. JAPHO, [Septuagint, Ioppee] - Joppa, now Yafa....

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 Joshua 19:46. _JAPHO._] The place since called Joppa, lying on the Mediterranean, and the chief sea-port, in the possession of the twelve tribes....

Japho (the modern Jaffa, or Yafa), elsewhere (see the margin) called Joppa, is often mentioned in the history of the Maccabees and was, as it still is, the leading port of access to Jerusalem both for pilgrims and for merchandise. It is a very ancient town....

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 MEJARKON, AND RAKKON,.... Of the two first of these we read no where else. WITH THE BORDER BEFORE JAPHO; Japho is the same with Joppa, now called at this day Jaffa, a port in the Mediterranean sea, famous for being the place where Jonah took shipping, Jonah 1:3; and where the Apostle Peter resided some time, Acts 9:36; and Acts 9:38. It is not certain whether Joppa itself was in the tribe of Dan, or only on the borders of it; the coast of Dan reached "over against" it, as it may be rendered, and included the villages and little cities that were near it; for such there were, as Josephus b testifies. b De Bello Jud. l. 3. c. 8. sect. 4....

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._ 46. _ME-JARKON,—RAKKON,—JAPHO_— _Me-jarkon, and Rakkon, that is Jarkon-Japho._ Hiller. Onomast. 915. The two first are unknown; but were probably situated near _Japho._ This city, known afterwards by the name of _Joppa,_ was the principal sea-port town in all _Judaea,_ and mentioned as such by Pomponius Mela, Strabo, and Pliny; indeed, it continues to be so to this day, being now called _Jaffa,_ a name which in the Hebrew signifies _fair_ or _beautiful._ The author does not (as Eusebius seems to have understood him) say positively, that _Japho_ was given to the Danites; he only says, that their portion extended to the lands which lay opposite those which belonged to this city....