Josué 19:22

22 y llega este término hasta Tabor, Sahazima, y Bet-semes; y sale su término al Jordán; dieciséis ciudades con sus aldeas

Josué 19:22 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 19:22

And the coast reacheth to Tabor
Tabor was the name of a mountain in those parts; it is generally supposed to be the mountain on which our Lord was transfigured, though it is not sufficiently evident; (See Gill on Jeremiah 46:18). There was a city of this name near it, ( 1 Chronicles 6:77 ) , and which is meant here, and which either gave unto or received name from the mount. The Greeks call it Itabyrium, and it is described by Polybius ^F7 as situated on a hill rising in the form of a pap or breast, and has an ascent of more than fifteen furlongs, and he calls it a city;

and Shahazimah
is not mentioned any where else;

and Bethshemesh;
there seem to have been several cities, at least more than one, of the name of Bethshemesh; one in the tribe of Judah, ( Joshua 21:16 ) ; and another in the tribe of Naphtali, ( Joshua 19:38 ) ; which perhaps may be the same with this, it lying on the borders of both tribes. In this, and so in others of the same name, was a temple dedicated to the sun by the Heathens, as there was one of the same name in Egypt for the same reason, ( Jeremiah 43:13 ) ;

and the outgoings of their border were at Jordan;
here it ended: so Josephus says, that the border of this tribe in the length of it were Mount Carmel (at one end), and the river (i.e. Jordan, at the other); and at the breadth of it the mountain Itabyrium, or Mount Tabor: it had Jordan on the east, the sea on the west, Zebulun on the north, and Manasseh on the south:

sixteen cities with their villages;
which was the sum total of them.

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FOOTNOTES:

F7 Hist. l. 5. p. 413.

Josué 19:22 In-Context

20 Rabit, Quisión, Abez

21 Remet, En-ganim, En-hada Bet-pases

22 y llega este término hasta Tabor, Sahazima, y Bet-semes; y sale su término al Jordán; dieciséis ciudades con sus aldeas

23 Esta es la heredad de la tribu de los hijos de Isacar conforme a sus familias; estas ciudades con sus aldeas

24 Y salió la quinta suerte por la tribu de los hijos de Aser por sus familias