SEV Biblia, Chapter 19:38
e Irón, y Migdal-el, y Horem, y Bet-anat, y Bet-semes; diecinueve ciudades con sus aldeas.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Joshua 19:38
Verse 38. Nineteen cities] But if these cities be separately enumerated they amount to twenty-three; this is probably occasioned by reckoning frontier cities belonging to other tribes, which are only mentioned here as the boundaries of the tribe. See on ver. 30.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 38. And Iron , etc.] Of Iron no mention is made elsewhere; and Migdalel , which Jerom calls Magdiel, he says was shown a small village, five miles from Dara, as you go to Ptolemais; and Horem is not mentioned anywhere elsewhere; and Bethanath ; Jerom also relates f485 , that Bathana, in the tribe of Naphtali, was a village that went by the name of Betbanes, fifteen miles from Caesarea; and Bethshemesh was another city, in which was a temple dedicated to the sun, when inhabited by the Canaanites; (see Joshua 19:22); and so in Bethanath there might be a temple dedicated to some deity, though now uncertain what: nineteen cities with their villages ; there are more mentioned, but some of them might be only boundaries, and so belonged to another tribe.
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 __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ויראון 3375 ומגדל אל 4027 חרם 2765 ובית ענת 1043 ובית שׁמשׁ 1053 ערים 5892 תשׁע 8672 עשׂרה 6240 וחצריהן׃ 2691
