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Joshua 15:1 KJV
Joshua · chapter 15 · verse 1
This then was the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah by their families; even to the border of Edom the wilderness of Zin southward was the uttermost part of the south coast.Joshua 15:1 · King James Version
Joshua 15:1 in context
1This then was the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah by their families; even to the border of Edom the wilderness of Zin southward was the uttermost part of the south coast.
2And their south border was from the shore of the salt sea, from the bay that looketh southward:
3And it went out to the south side to Maalehacrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and ascended up on the south side unto Kadeshbarnea, and passed along to Hezron, and went up to Adar, and fetched a compass to Karkaa:
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- wildernessmidbâra pastureH4057 →
- southwardnegebthe southH5045 →
- childrenbêna son , in the widest sense , etc.)H1121 →
- familiesmishpâchâha familyH4940 →
- bordergᵉbûwlproperly, a cordH1366 →
- tribemaṭṭeha branchH4294 →
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Judah and Joseph were the two sons of Jacob on whom Reuben's forfeited birth-right devolved. Judah had the dominion entailed on him, and Joseph the double portion, and therefore these two tribes were first seated, Judah in the southern part of the land of Canaan and Joseph in the northern part, and on them the other…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-12