Joshua 19:38

38 Yiron, Mig'dal-el, Horem, Beth-anath, and Beth-she'mesh--nineteen cities with their villages.

Joshua 19:38 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 19:38

And Iron
Of Iron no mention is made elsewhere;

and Migdalel,
which Jerom calls Magdiel, he says F13 was shown a small village, five miles from Dara, as you go to Ptolemais;

and Horem
is not mentioned anywhere elsewhere;

and Bethanath;
Jerom also relates F14, that Bathana, in the tribe of Naphtali, was a village that went by the name of Betbanes, fifteen miles from Caesarea;

and Bethshemesh
was another city, in which was a temple dedicated to the sun, when inhabited by the Canaanites; see ( Joshua 19:22 ) ; and so in Bethanath there might be a temple dedicated to some deity, though now uncertain what:

nineteen cities with their villages;
there are more mentioned, but some of them might be only boundaries, and so belonged to another tribe.


FOOTNOTES:

F13 De loc. Heb. fol. 93. L.
F14 Ibid. fol. 89. H.

Joshua 19:38 In-Context

36 Ad'amah, Ramah, Hazor,
37 Kedesh, Ed're-i, En-ha'zor,
38 Yiron, Mig'dal-el, Horem, Beth-anath, and Beth-she'mesh--nineteen cities with their villages.
39 This is the inheritance of the tribe of Naph'tali according to its families--the cities with their villages.
40 The seventh lot came out for the tribe of Dan, according to its families.
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