SEV Biblia, Chapter 15:9
y rodea este término desde la cumbre del monte hasta la fuente de las aguas de Neftoa, y sale a la ciudades del monte de Efrón, rodeando luego el mismo término a Baala, la cual es Quiriat-jearim.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Joshua 15:9
Verse 9. Baalah, which is Kirjath-jearim] This place was rendered famous in Scripture, in consequence of its being the residence of the ark, for twenty years after it was sent back by the Philistines; see 1 Sam. v. 1-vii. 2.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 9. And the border was drawn from the top of the hill , etc.] Mount Moriah, and went round in a circuit, so Jarchi and Kimchi: unto the fountain of the water of Nephtoah ; which lay at the bottom of it; which, according to the Jewish writers, is the same with the fountain of Etam, from whence a stream flowed to the dipping room in the water gate of the temple, where the high priest for the first time dipped himself on the day of atonement f312 ; and went out to the cities of Mount Ephron ; Jerom speaks of an Ephron in the tribe of Judah, which was a very large village in his time, and went by the name of Ephraea, and was twenty miles from Aelia or Jerusalem to the north; and which Eusebius better places eight miles from it; and Jarchi observes, that the line went to the north side, and the border enlarged to this place; near to this mountain were cities, and it is not improbable that one of them might have its name from it; but whether this, or what mountain is here meant, is uncertain: some have thought of Ephraim, with its towns, mentioned in ( 2 Chronicles 13:19); which seems to have been in the tribe of Ephraim; though Reland places it in the tribe of Benjamin: and the border was drawn to Baalah, which [is] Kirjathjearim ; called Kirjathbaal, or the city of Baal, ( Joshua 15:60); where it is probable there was a temple of Baal; and when it came into the hands of the Israelites, they changed its name to Kirjathjearim, or the city of the woods, because of the great number of trees which grew about it; for which reason it might have been pitched upon by the Heathens for their idolatrous service; it was one of the cities of the Gibeonites, ( Joshua 9:17); and, according to Eusebius and Jerom f315 , it was nine or ten miles from Jerusalem, as you go to Lydda; it is also called Baalah in ( 1 Chronicles 13:6); and Baale of Judah, ( 2 Samuel 6:2).
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
ותאר 8388 הגבול 1366 מראשׁ 7218 ההר 2022 אל 413 מעין 4599 מי 4325 נפתוח 5318 ויצא 3318 אל 413 ערי 5892 הר 2022 עפרון 6085 ותאר 8388 הגבול 1366 בעלה 1173 היא 1931 קרית יערים׃ 7157
