Commentary on Joshua

1And there was a lot to the children of Judah by their families near the border of Edom, and the desert of Sin towards the south, from the extremity of the south.

2And their south boundary was from the extremity of the salt sea, that is, from the rock which looks towards the south.

3And it goes out towards the south of Maale-acrabim, and thence passes over into Sin: and proceeding from the south in Cades-barnea, it passes over thence into Esron, and again goes up in Adar, and makes a circuit in Carcaa.

4Thence it passes into Asmon, and goes out to the torrent of Egypt: and the outgoings of this boundary are toward the west: that will be your boundary toward the south.

5And the boundary toward the east is the salt sea, even to the extremity of the Jordan; and the boundary of the north corner is from the rock of the sea, from the extremity of the Jordan.

6And that boundary goeth up into Beth-hoglah, and passes from the north to Beth-araba: and thence that boundary goeth up to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben.

7That boundary, moreover, goeth up into Debir from the valley of Achor, and towards the north looks to Gilgal, which is over against the ascent of Adummim, which, indeed, is to the torrent on the south: and that boundary passes to the waters of En-semes, and its outgoings are at En-rogel.

8And that boundary goeth up to the valley of the son of Hinnom, to the side of the Jebusite on the south; the same is Jerusalem: that boundary, moreover, goeth up to the top of the mountain which is over against the valley of Hinnom on the west, which valley is at the extremity of the valley of Rephaim on the north.

9And the boundary goes round from the top of the mountain, to the fountain of the water of Nephthoah, and goeth out to the cities of mount Ephron, and that boundary makes a circuit in Baala, the same is Ciriath-Jearim.

10And thence that boundary winds round from Baala on the west to mount Seir, and thence passes through to the side of mount Jearim on the north, the same is Chesalon, and it goeth down into Beth-semes, and passes over into Timna.

11And the boundary goeth out to the side of Ecron on the north, and that boundary makes a circuit to Sichron, and passes through even to mount Baala: and thence goes out into Jabneel: and the outgoings of this boundary are at the sea.

12Moreover, the west boundary is at the great sea and its coast: that is the boundary of the children of Judah round about, by their families.

13And he gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh in the midst of the children of Judah, according to the word of Jehovah to Joshua, the portion of Ciriath-arba, the father of Anac, the same is Hebron.

14Caleb drove thence the three sons of Anac, Sezadi, and Haiman, and Thalmai, who were sons of Anac.

15And he went up from thence to the inhabitants of Debir, whose name was formerly Ciriath-sepher.

16And Caleb said, To him who shall smite Ciriath-sepher and take it, will I give my daughter Achsa to wife.

17And Othoniel the son of Cenas, the brother of Caleb, took it, and he gave him Achsa his daughter to wife.

18And it was when she came, that she persuaded him to ask a field of her father, and she dismounted from the ass, and Caleb said to her, What would thou?

19She answered, Give me a blessing; since thou has given me an arid land, give me springs of water. And he gave her upper springs and lower springs.

20That is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah by their families.

21And the cities in the extremity of the tribe of Judah, near the border of Edom on the south were Capsee, and Eder, and Jagur,

22And Cina, and Dimona, and Adada,

23And Cedes, and Hasor, and Ithnan,

24Ziph, and Telem, and Bealot,

25And Hazor, and Hadatha, and Cerioth, Hesron, the same is Hazor.

26Amam, and Sema, and Molada,

27And Hasar-Gadda, and Hesmon, and Beth-phelet,

28And Hasar-sual, and Beerseba, and Biziotheia,

29Baala, and Jim, and Asem,

30And Eltholad, and Chesil, and Hormah,

31And Siclag, and Madmannah, and Sensannah,

32And Lebaoth, and Silhim, and Ain, and Rimon: all the cities twenty-nine, and their villages.

33In the plain Esthaol, and Sora, and Asnah,

34And Zanoah, and En-gannim, and Thaphuah, and Enam,

35Jarmuth, and Adulam, Sochoch, and Azecah,

36And Saaraim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and Gederothaim: fourteen cities and their villages.

37Senam, and Hadasa, and Migdalgad,

38And Dilan, and Mispeh, and Jocteel,

39Lachis, and Boscath, and Eglon,

40And Chabbon, and Lahmam, and Chithlis,

41And Gederoth, Beth-dagon, and Naamah, Makeda: sixteen cities and their villages.

42Liona, and Ether, and Asan,

43And Jephtha, and Asna, and Nesib,

44And Cheila, and Achzib, and Marezah: nine cities and their villages.

45Ecron, and its towns and its villages.

46From Ecron, and to the sea, all which are on the side of Asdod, and their villages.

47Asdod, its towns and its villages: Azza, its towns and its villages, even to the torrent of Egypt, and the great sea; and this is its boundary.

48And in the mountain, Samir and Jarbur, and Sochoch,

49And Dannah, and Ciriath-sannah, the same is Debir,

50And Ahab, and Estemoth, and Anim,

51And Gosan, and Holon, and Giloh: eleven cities and their villages.

52Arab, and Dumah, and Esan,

53And Janum, and Beth-thappuah, and Aphecah,

54And Humtha, and Ciriath-Arba, the same is Hebron, and Sior: nine cities and their villages.

55Mahon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Juttah,

56And Jezreel, and Jocdean, and Zaura,

57Cain, Giba, and Thimna: ten cities and their villages.

58Hal-hul, and Beth-sur, and Gedor,

59And Maarath, and Bethanoth, and Elthecon: six cities and their villages.

60Ciriath-baal, the same is Ciriath-Jearim, and Rabba: two cities and their villages.

61In the desert Beth-arabah Middin, and Sech-acha,

62And Nibsan, and the city of Salt, and En-gedi: six cities and their villages.

63Moreover, the children of Judah were not able to expel the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem; therefore the Jebusite has dwelt with the children of Judah in Jerusalem even to this day.