Yehoshua 19:39

39 This is the nachalah of the tribe of the Bnei Naphtali according to their mishpekhot, the towns and their villages.

Yehoshua 19:39 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 19:39

This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of
Naphtali
Which Josephus ^F15 thus describes;

``the country to the east, as far as Damascus the city, and upper Galilee, the Naphtalites took, unto Mount Lebanon, and the fountains of Jordan, which flow out of the mount, reaching the northern border of the city Arce:''

according to their families;
which was divided among them, according to the number of their families:

the cities and their villages;
before enumerated.

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FOOTNOTES:

F15 Antiqu. l. 5. c. 1. sect. 22.

Yehoshua 19:39 In-Context

37 And Kedesh, and Edrei, and Ein Chatzor,

38 And Yiron, and Migdal-El, Chorem, and Beit Anat, and Beit Shemesh; 19 towns with their villages.

39 This is the nachalah of the tribe of the Bnei Naphtali according to their mishpekhot, the towns and their villages.

40 And the seventh goral came out for the tribe of the Bnei Dan according to their mishpekhot.

41 And the territory of their nachalah was Tzorah, and Eshtaol, and Ir-Shemesh,