SEV Biblia, Chapter 15:7
Y torna a subir este término a Debir desde el valle de Acor; y al norte mira sobre Gilgal, que está delante de la subida de Adumín, la cual está al mediodía del arroyo; y pasa este término a las aguas de En-semes, y sale a la fuente de Rogel;
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Joshua 15:7
Verse 7. The valley of Achor] Debir mentioned in this verse is unknown. The valley of Achor had its name from the punishment of Achan. See the account, chap. vii. 24, &c.
En-shemesh] The fountain of the sun; it was eastward of Jerusalem, on the confines of Judah and Benjamin.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 7. And the border went up towards Debir , etc.] This was neither the Debir in the tribe of Gad, on the other side Jordan, ( Joshua 13:26); nor that in the tribe of Judah near Hebron, ( Joshua 15:15); but a third city of that name, and was not far from Jericho: from the valley of Achor ; where Achan was put to death, and had its name from thence; which, according to Jarchi, lay between the stone of Bohan and Debir: and so northward, looking towards Gilgal ; not the place where Israel were encamped when this lot was made, but it seems to be the same that is called Geliloth, ( Joshua 18:17); that [is], the going up to Adummim ; which, Jerom says f299 , was formerly a little village, now in ruins, in the lot of the tribe of Judah, which place is called to this day Maledomim; and by the Greeks “the ascent of the red ones”, because of the blood which was there frequently shed by thieves: it lies on the borders of Judah and Benjamin, as you go from Jerusalem to Jericho, where there is a garrison of soldiers for the help of travellers, and is supposed to be the place where the man fell among thieves in his way from the one to the other, ( Luke 10:30). It was four miles distant from Jericho to the west, according to Adrichomius f300 , and was a mountain, and part of the mountains of Engaddi: which [is] on the south side of the river ; which some take to be the brook Kidron; but that is not very likely, being too near Jerusalem for this place: it may be rendered “the valley”, so Jarchi, either the valley of Achor, before mentioned, or however a valley that ran along by the mount or ascent of Adummim, which lay to the south of it: and the border passed to the waters of Enshemesh : or the “fountain of the sun”; but of it we have no account what and where it was. It might be so called, because dedicated to the sun by the idolatrous Canaanites, or because of the sun’s influence on the waters of it. Our city, Bath, is, by Antoninus f301 , called “aquae solis”, the waters of the sun; though there is a fountain in Cyrene, so called, for a reason just the reverse, it being, as Mela and Pliny affirm, hottest the middle of the night, and then grows cooler by little and little; and when it is light is cold, and when the sun is risen is colder still, and at noon exceeding cold; and, according to Vossius f304 , it is the same with the fountain of Jupiter Ammon; and so it appears to be from Herodotus f305 , by whom it is also called the “fountain of the sun”, and which he places in Thebes, though Pliny distinguishes them: and the goings out thereof were at Enrogel ; which signifies “the fountain of the fuller”; so the Targum renders it, and probably was a fountain where fullers cleansed their clothes; and was called Rogel, as Jarchi and Kimchi say, because they used to tread them with their feet when they washed them. This was a place near Jerusalem, as appears from ( 1 Kings 1:9); near to which perhaps was the fuller’s monument, at the corner tower of Jerusalem, Josephus speaks of, as there was also a place not far from it called the fuller’s field, ( Isaiah 7:3); according to Bunting f307 , it had its name from travellers washing their feet here.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-12 - Joshua allotted to Judah, Ephraim, and the half of Manasseh, their inheritances before they left Gilgal. Afterwards removing to Shiloh another survey was made, and the other tribes had their portio assigned. In due time all God's people are settled.
Original Hebrew
ועלה 5927 הגבול 1366 דברה 1688 מעמק 6010 עכור 5911 וצפונה 6828 פנה 6437 אל 413 הגלגל 1537 אשׁר 834 נכח 5227 למעלה 4608 אדמים 131 אשׁר 834 מנגב 5045 לנחל 5158 ועבר 5674 הגבול 1366 אל 413 מי 4325 עין שׁמשׁ 5885 והיו 1961 תצאתיו 8444 אל 413 עין רגל׃ 5883
