Yehoshua 19:18

18 And their territory was toward Yizre’el, and Kesulot, and Shunem,

Yehoshua 19:18 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 19:18

And their border was towards Jezreel
Which was a royal seat in the time of Ahab, ( 1 Kings 21:1 ) ; and according to Jerom was near to Maximianopolis; (See Gill on Hosea 1:5); and the same writer F21 says in his day a large village of this name was shown in the great plain between Scythopolis and Legion (he means the plain of Jezreel), and it was the border of Issachar:

and Chesulloth
was different from the Chislothtabor, ( Joshua 19:12 ) ; that, as Masius observes, was to the north, this to the south of Mount Tabor;

and Shunem
is a place well known for being the dwelling place of a certain woman in the times of Elisha, whose son the prophet raised from the dead, ( 2 Kings 4:8 ) ; Jerom calls it Sonam, where was the Shunammite woman; but this city here seems to be what he calls Salem, in the tribe of Issachar; and he adds, that there was shown in his day a village by this name, five miles from Mount Tabor to the south F23: according to Bunting F24, it was forty eight miles from Jerusalem to the north, not far from Nain.


FOOTNOTES:

F21 De loc. Heb. fol. 92. I.
F23 De loc. Heb. fol. 94. K. L.
F24 Travels, p. 143.

Yehoshua 19:18 In-Context

16 This is the nachalah of the Bnei Zevulun according to their mishpekhot, these towns with their villages.
17 And the fourth goral came out to Yissakhar, for the Bnei Yissakhar according to their mishpekhot.
18 And their territory was toward Yizre’el, and Kesulot, and Shunem,
19 And Chaphrayim, and Shi’on, and Anacharat,
20 And Rabit, and Kishyon, and Evetz,
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