Joshua 19:25

25 fuitque terminus eorum Alchath et Oali et Beten et Axab

Joshua 19:25 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 19:25

And their border was Helkath
Helkath seems to be the same with Hukok, ( 1 Chronicles 6:75 ) ; and according to Masius it lay ten or twelve miles above Ptolemais;

and Hali,
of which we read nowhere else.

and Beten
is by Jerom ^F8 called Bathne, and was in his time a village by the name of Bethebem, eight miles from Ptolemais to the east. Reland

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FOOTNOTES:

F9 seems to think it might be the Ecbatana of Pliny ^F11, which he speaks of as near Mount Carmel, and not far from Ptolemais;

and Achshaph
was a royal city, whose king was taken by Joshua, (See Gill on Joshua 11:1).

F8 De loc. Heb. fol. 89. H.
F9 Palestin. Illustrat. tom. 2. p. 617.
F11 Nat. Hist. l. 5. c. 19.

Joshua 19:25 In-Context

23 haec est possessio filiorum Isachar per cognationes suas urbes et viculi earum

24 cecidit sors quinta tribui filiorum Aser per cognationes suas

25 fuitque terminus eorum Alchath et Oali et Beten et Axab

26 Elmelech et Amaad et Messal et pervenit usque ad Carmelum maris et Siorlabanath

27 ac revertitur contra orientem Bethdagon et pertransit usque Zabulon et vallem Iepthahel contra aquilonem in Bethemech et Neihel egrediturque ad levam Chabul