Joshua 19:9

_OUT OF THE PORTION OF THE CHILDREN OF JUDAH WAS THE INHERITANCE OF THE CHILDREN OF SIMEON: FOR THE PART OF THE CHILDREN OF JUDAH WAS TOO MUCH FOR THEM: THEREFORE THE CHILDREN OF SIMEON HAD THEIR INHERITANCE WITHIN THE INHERITANCE OF THEM._ No JFB commentary on this verse....

9._Out of the portion of the children of Judah, _etc The praise of moderation is due to the tribe of Judah for not contending that the abstraction of any part of the inheritance already assigned to them was unjust. They might easily have obtruded the name of God, and asserted that it was only by his authority they had obtained that settlement. But as it is decided by the common consent of all the tribes that more has been given to them than they can possess without loss and injury to the others, they immediately desist from all pretext for disputing the matter. And it is certain that if they had alleged the authority of God, it would have been falsely and wickedly, inasmuch as though their lot had been determined by him in regard to its situation, an error had taken place with regard to its extent, their limits having been fixed by human judgment wider than they ought. Therefore, acknowl...

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....

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

OUT OF THE PORTION OF THE CHILDREN OF JUDAH [WAS] THE INHERITANCE OF THE CHILDREN OF SIMEON,.... Which is the reason why no description is given of the border of their inheritance, because that is before given in the account of the lot of Judah: FOR THE PART OF THE CHILDREN OF JUDAH WAS TOO MUCH FOR THEM: they had more cities than they could fill with people, and more land than they could cultivate; they had an hundred fourteen cities with their villages: THEREFORE THE CHILDREN OF SIMEON HAD THEIR INHERITANCE WITHIN THE INHERITANCE OF THEM; the one being a small tribe, and the other large, and for the reasons given; Joshua 19:1....

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