YuēShūyàjì 18:14

14 Cóng nàli wǎng xī , yòu zhuǎn xiàng nán , cóng Bǎihélún nán duìmiàn de shān , zhí dádào Yóudà rén de chéng Jīliè bā lì ( Jīliè bā lì jiù shì Jīliè Yélín ) . zhè shì xī jiè .

YuēShūyàjì 18:14 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 18:14

And the border was drawn [thence]
From Bethhoron:

and compassed the corner of the sea southward;
it is hard to say what sea is meant, or what by it. Fuller ^F11 conjectures, that as the Hebrews call any confluence of water a sea, as we call such a "mere", the great waters in Gibeon may be meant, ( Jeremiah 41:12 ) ; for it cannot mean the Mediterranean sea, for Dan lay between Benjamin and that; and yet if a sea is meant, no other can be; wherefore it is best to render it the "west quarter", as it is in the latter part of this verse; and so the same word is translated, ( Joshua 18:12 ) ; the "west", and not the "sea", as it sometimes is; for the border of Benjamin did not reach the sea any where; though Josephus ^F12 makes it to extend to it, and says, that the length of it was from the river Jordan to the sea:

the hill that [lieth] before Bethhoron southward;
the hill that lay to the south of nether Bethhoron, as in ( Joshua 18:13 ) :

and the goings out thereof,
the end of the western coast,

were at Kirjathbaal, which [is] Kirjathjearim, a city of the children
of Judah;
of which see ( Joshua 15:9 Joshua 15:60 ) ;

this [was] the west quarter;
as thus described.

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FOOTNOTES:

F11 Pisgah Sight, B. 2. c. 12. p. 251.
F12 Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 5. c. 1. sect. 22.)

YuēShūyàjì 18:14 In-Context

12 Tāmende bĕi jiè shì cóng Yuēdànhé qǐ , wǎng shàng tiē jìn Yēlìgē de bĕibiān . yòu wǎng xī tōng guō shān dì , zhídào bǎi yà wén de kuàngyĕ .

13 Cóng nàli wǎng nán jiē lián dào Lùsī , tiē jìn Lùsī ( Lùsī jiù shì Bótèlì ) , yòu xià dào yà tā lǜ Yàdá , kàojìn xià Bǎihélún nánbiān de shān .

14 Cóng nàli wǎng xī , yòu zhuǎn xiàng nán , cóng Bǎihélún nán duìmiàn de shān , zhí dádào Yóudà rén de chéng Jīliè bā lì ( Jīliè bā lì jiù shì Jīliè Yélín ) . zhè shì xī jiè .

15 Nán jiè shì cóng Jīliè Yélín de jǐn bian qǐ , wǎng xī dádào Nífúduōyà de shuǐ yuán .

16 Yòu xià dào Xīnnènzǐ yù duìmiàn shān de jǐn bian , jiù shì Lìfáyīn yù bĕibiān de shān . yòu xià dào Xīnnèn yù , tiē jìn Yébùsī de nánbiān . yòu xià dào yǐn luó jié .