Joshua 19:8

_AND ALL THE VILLAGES THAT WERE ROUND ABOUT THESE CITIES TO BAALATHBEER, RAMATH OF THE SOUTH. THIS IS THE INHERITANCE OF THE TRIBE OF THE CHILDREN OF SIMEON ACCORDING TO THEIR FAMILIES._ Ramath of the south - Ramath-negeb (according to the residing of four manuscripts), low ridges of the Negeb....

1-9 The men of Judah did not oppose taking away the cities within their border, when convinced that they had more than was right. If a true believer has obtained an unintended and improper advantage in any thing, he will give it up without murmuring. Love seeketh not her own, and doth not behave unseemly; it will induce those in whom it richly dwells, to part with their own to supply what is lacking to their brethren....

Verse Joshua 19:8. _BAALATH-BEER_] The _well of the mistresses_. Probably so called from some superstitious or impure worship set up there....

The inheritance of Simeon was taken out of the portion of Judah, which proved on experience to be larger than the numbers of that tribe required. The Simeonite territory is described by its towns, of which fourteen were in the Negeb, and four others Joshua 19:7 partly in the Negeb and partly in “the valley.” On the narrow confines here assigned to Simeon, and its insignificant position altogether among the Twelve tribes, see Deuteronomy 33:6 note. Joshua 19:6 THIRTEEN - Fourteen names have been given. The error is probably due to the use of letters for numbers, which has led to many similar mistakes in other places (see...

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 ALL THE VILLAGES THAT [WERE] ROUND ABOUT THESE CITIES,.... Not only the suburbs adjoining to those cities which are mentioned before, but the several small distinct towns and villages, scattered up and down in the country: TO BAALATHBEER, RAMATH OF THE SOUTH: this is the same with Baal in 1 Chronicles 4:33; and with Ramath of the south, or south Ramoth, as it is called 1 Samuel 30:27; all these are the names of one and the same city: THIS [IS] THE INHERITANCE OF THE TRIBE OF THE CHILDREN OF SIMEON, ACCORDING TO THEIR FAMILIES; that is, the above named cities fell to the lot of the inheritance of the Simeonites, and were divided among them according to the number of their respective families; at least, these were the chief and princi

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)....

_Ziklag_ See ch. Joshua 15:31, identified by Rowlands and Wilton (_Negeb_, p. 209) with _Asloodg_or _Kasloodg_; (_a_) Achish bestowed the town upon David; (_b_) here David resided upwards of one year and four months (1Sa 27:7; 1 Samuel 30:14; 1 Samuel 30:26); (_c_) here he received the news of Saul's death (2 Samuel 1:1; 2 Samuel 4:10); 10. _Beth-marcaboth = "house of chariots_," and 11. _Hazar-susah = "village of horses_," appear to be the old names of Madmannah and Sansannah (see ch....

_The Inheritance of Simeon Joshua 19:1-9_ And the second lot came forth to Simeon, even for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families: and their inheritance was within the inheritance of the children of Judah. 2 And they had in their inheritance Beer-sheba, and Sheba, and Moladah, 3 And Hazar-shual, and Balah, and Azem, 4 And Eltolad, and Bethul, and Hormah, 5 And Ziklag, and Beth-marcaboth, and Hazar-susah, 6 And Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities and their villages: 7 Ain, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities and their villages: 8 And all the villages that were round about these cities to Baalath-beer, Ramath of the south. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families. 9 Out of the portion of the children of Judah was the inheritance of the children of Simeon: for the part of the