Joshua 19:32-51

Allotment for Naphtali

32 The sixth lot came out for Naphtali according to its clans:
33 Their boundary went from Heleph and the large tree in Zaanannim, passing Adami Nekeb and Jabneel to Lakkum and ending at the Jordan.
34 The boundary ran west through Aznoth Tabor and came out at Hukkok. It touched Zebulun on the south, Asher on the west and the Jordan[a] on the east.
35 The fortified towns were Ziddim, Zer, Hammath, Rakkath, Kinnereth,
36 Adamah, Ramah, Hazor,
37 Kedesh, Edrei, En Hazor,
38 Iron, Migdal El, Horem, Beth Anath and Beth Shemesh. There were nineteen towns and their villages.
39 These towns and their villages were the inheritance of the tribe of Naphtali, according to its clans.

Allotment for Dan

40 The seventh lot came out for the tribe of Dan according to its clans.
41 The territory of their inheritance included: Zorah, Eshtaol, Ir Shemesh,
42 Shaalabbin, Aijalon, Ithlah,
43 Elon, Timnah, Ekron,
44 Eltekeh, Gibbethon, Baalath,
45 Jehud, Bene Berak, Gath Rimmon,
46 Me Jarkon and Rakkon, with the area facing Joppa.
47 (When the territory of the Danites was lost to them, they went up and attacked Leshem, took it, put it to the sword and occupied it. They settled in Leshem and named it Dan after their ancestor.)
48 These towns and their villages were the inheritance of the tribe of Dan, according to its clans.

Allotment for Joshua

49 When they had finished dividing the land into its allotted portions, the Israelites gave Joshua son of Nun an inheritance among them,
50 as the LORD had commanded. They gave him the town he asked for—Timnath Serah[b] in the hill country of Ephraim. And he built up the town and settled there.
51 These are the territories that Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun and the heads of the tribal clans of Israel assigned by lot at Shiloh in the presence of the LORD at the entrance to the tent of meeting. And so they finished dividing the land.

Joshua 19:32-51 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOSHUA 19

In this chapter an account is given of the lots of the six remaining tribes, and the cities in them, as of Simeon, whose cities were chiefly within the tribe of Judah, Jos 19:1-9; of Zebulun, its border and cities, Jos 19:10-16; of Issachar, its border and cities, Jos 19:17-23; of Asher, its border and cities, Jos 19:24-31; of Naphtali, its border and cities, Jos 19:32-39; of Dan, its border and titles, Jos 19:40-48; and lastly of a gift of inheritance to Joshua, Jos 19:49-51.

Cross References 29

  • 1. Judges 4:11
  • 2. Joshua 15:11
  • 3. 1 Chronicles 6:75
  • 4. S ver 10
  • 5. 1 Chronicles 2:55
  • 6. S Joshua 11:2
  • 7. Joshua 18:25
  • 8. S Joshua 11:1
  • 9. S Joshua 12:22
  • 10. S Numbers 21:33
  • 11. Judges 1:33
  • 12. S Joshua 15:10
  • 13. Deuteronomy 33:23; Ezekiel 48:3
  • 14. S Joshua 15:33
  • 15. S Joshua 10:12; Judges 1:35
  • 16. S Genesis 38:12
  • 17. S Joshua 13:3
  • 18. Joshua 21:23; 1 Kings 15:27; 1 Kings 16:15
  • 19. 1 Kings 9:18; 2 Chronicles 8:6
  • 20. Joshua 21:24; 1 Chronicles 6:69
  • 21. 2 Chronicles 2:16; Ezra 3:7; John 1:3; Acts 9:36
  • 22. Judges 18:1
  • 23. Judges 18:7,14
  • 24. S Deuteronomy 3:14
  • 25. Judges 18:27,29
  • 26. S Genesis 30:6
  • 27. Joshua 24:30; Judges 2:9
  • 28. Joshua 23:4
  • 29. S Joshua 14:1; S Joshua 18:10; Acts 13:19

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. Septuagint; Hebrew "west, and Judah, the Jordan,"
  • [b]. Also known as "Timnath Heres" (see Judges 2:9)
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