and then the coast turneth From the Jordan on the east, the southern border of Naphtali turned westward to Aznoth-tabor, not identified, but probably a border town on the line which separated this tribe from Issachar, and "struck," or coincided with, Zebulun on the south and Asher on the west. The site of Hukkokis unknown.

Judah upon Jordan So our Version renders it, following the Vulgate, Et in Juda ad Jordanem. Others, following the Masoretic punctuation, would put a colon at Judah, so that it would run, "and Judah; the Jordan was toward the sunrising" i.e. the eastern boundary of the tribe. The word Judahhere has been explained by the fact that the sixty cities, Havoth-jair(Numbers 32:41), which were on the eastern side of Jordan opposite to Naphtali, were reckoned as belonging to Judah, because Jair their founder was descended on the father's side from Judah through Hezron. Comp. 1 Chronicles 2:21-24. Others would identify it with a village el-Jehidijeh, marked on Dr Smith's map, north of Tibrin, but this is not satisfactory.

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