Josué 18:14

14 Da montanha que fica defronte de Bete-Horom, no sul, a fronteira virava para o sul, ao longo do lado ocidental, e terminava em Quiriate-Baal, que é Quiriate-Jearim, cidade do povo de Judá. Esse era o lado ocidental.

Josué 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.)

Josué 18:14 In-Context

12 No lado norte a sua fronteira começava no Jordão, passava pela encosta norte de Jericó e prosseguia para o oeste, para a região montanhosa, terminando no deserto de Bete-Áven.

13 Dali ia para a encosta sul de Luz, que é Betel, e descia para Atarote-Adar, na montanha que está ao sul de Bete-Horom Baixa.

14 Da montanha que fica defronte de Bete-Horom, no sul, a fronteira virava para o sul, ao longo do lado ocidental, e terminava em Quiriate-Baal, que é Quiriate-Jearim, cidade do povo de Judá. Esse era o lado ocidental.

15 A fronteira sul começava no oeste, nos arredores de Quiriate-Jearim, e chegava à fonte de Neftoa.

16 A fronteira descia até o sopé da montanha que fica defronte do vale de Ben-Hinom, ao norte do vale de Refaim. Depois, prosseguia, descendo pelo vale de Hinom ao longo da encosta sul da cidade dos jebuseus e chegava até En-Rogel.