SEV Biblia, Chapter 19:22
y llega este término hasta Tabor, y Sahazima, y Bet-semes; y sale su término al Jordán; dieciséis ciudades con sus aldeas.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Joshua 19:22
Verse 22. Beth-shemesh] The house or temple of the sun; there were several cities or towns of this name in Palestine; an ample proof that the worship of this celestial luminary had generally prevailed in that idolatrous country.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 22. And the coast reacheth to Tabor , etc.] Tabor was the name of a mountain in those parts; it is generally supposed to be the mountain on which our Lord was transfigured, though it is not sufficiently evident; (see Gill on “ Jeremiah 46:18”). There was a city of this name near it, ( Chronicles 6:77), and which is meant here, and which either gave unto or received name from the mount. The Greeks call it Itabyrium, and it is described by Polybius as situated on a hill rising in the form of a pap or breast, and has an ascent of more than fifteen furlongs, and he calls it a city; and Shahazimah is not mentioned any where else; and Bethshemesh ; there seem to have been several cities, at least more than one, of the name of Bethshemesh; one in the tribe of Judah, ( Joshua 21:16); and another in the tribe of Naphtali, ( Joshua 19:38); which perhaps may be the same with this, it lying on the borders of both tribes. In this, and so in others of the same name, was a temple dedicated to the sun by the Heathens, as there was one of the same name in Egypt for the same reason, ( Jeremiah 43:13); and the outgoings of their border were at Jordan ; here it ended: so Josephus says, that the border of this tribe in the length of it were Mount Carmel (at one end), and the river (i.e. Jordan, at the other); and at the breadth of it the mountain Itabyrium, or Mount Tabor: it had Jordan on the east, the sea on the west, Zebulun on the north, and Manasseh on the south: sixteen cities with their villages ; which was the sum total of them.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 17-51 - Joshua waited till all the tribes were settled, before he asked an provision for himself. He was content to be unfixed, till he saw the all placed, and herein is an example to all in public places, to prefe the common welfare before private advantage. Those who labour most to do good to others, seek an inheritance in the Canaan above: but it wil be soon enough to enter thereon, when they have done all the service to their brethren of which they are capable. Nor can any thing mor effectually assure them of their title to it, than endeavouring to bring others to desire, to seek, and to obtain it. Our Lord Jesus cam and dwelt on earth, not in pomp but poverty, providing rest for man yet himself not having where to lay his head; for Christ pleased no himself. Nor would he enter upon his inheritance, till by his obedienc to death he secured the eternal inheritance for all his people; no will he account his own glory completed, till every ransomed sinner is put in possession of his heavenly rest __________________________________________________________________
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