Joshua 21:1
ELEAZAR THE PRIEST. See note on Joshua 14:4 I. CHILDREN. sons.... [ Continue Reading ]
ELEAZAR THE PRIEST. See note on Joshua 14:4 I. CHILDREN. sons.... [ Continue Reading ]
SHILOH. See note on Joshua 18:1. THE LORD COMMANDED. Jehovah commanded. Compare Numbers 35:1.Leviticus 25:33. HAND. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause) for what is effected by it. SUBURBS. common lands, or pasture lands; and so throughout the chapter, fifty-seven times.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah_. App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
CAME OUT. i.e. out of the bag containing the Urim and Thummim. See note on Exodus 28:30. Num 28:55.... [ Continue Reading ]
AS THE LORD. According as Jehovah.... [ Continue Reading ]
ARBA. Compare Jos 14:12-15. 1 Chronicles 6:55.... [ Continue Reading ]
CALEB. Compare Joshua 14:14; 1 Chronicles 6:56.... [ Continue Reading ]
HOLON. 1 Chronicles 6:58. Hilon.... [ Continue Reading ]
BETH-SHEMESH. Some codices, with four early printed editions, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "and Beth-shemesh".... [ Continue Reading ]
ANATHOTH. Some codices, with Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "and Anathoth".... [ Continue Reading ]
IN MOUNT. in the hill country of.... [ Continue Reading ]
GIBBETHON. Some codices, with three early printed editions, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "and Gibbethon".... [ Continue Reading ]
AIJALON. Some codices, with two early printed editions, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "and Aijalon".... [ Continue Reading ]
EN-GANNIM. Some codices, with one early printed edition, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "and En-gannim".... [ Continue Reading ]
HELKATH. Some codices, with two early printed editions, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "and Helkath".... [ Continue Reading ]
KARTAH. Some codices, with five early printed editions, Aramaean, and Vulgate, read "and Kartah... [ Continue Reading ]
AND OUT OF THE TRIBE OF REUBEN. See note on Joshua 21:38. Reuben. Some codices, with one early printed edition, add "a city of refuge for the manslayer BEZER. Some codices, with Septuagint and Vulgate, add in the desert". AND JAHASAH. Some codices omit this "and... [ Continue Reading ]
KEDEMOTH. Some codices, with six early printed editions, and Septuagint, read "and Kedemoth... [ Continue Reading ]
By an _Homoceoteleuton_ (App-6) some scribe, writing as far as "four cities "at end of Joshua 21:35, went back with his eye to the same words at the end of Joshua 21:37, and omitted, by an accident, the two verses Joshua 21:36 and Joshua 21:37, and continued at Joshua 21:38, which commences with the... [ Continue Reading ]
MAN. Hebrew. _'ish._ App-14.... [ Continue Reading ]