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Joshua 19:4 <a href="../joshua/19-5.htm" title="Joshua 19:5">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="topverse">And Eltolad, and Bethul, and Hormah,</div><div id="jump">Jump to: <a href="/commentaries/barnes/joshua/19.htm" title="Barnes' Notes">Barnes</a> • <a href="/commentaries/benson/joshua/19.htm" title="Benson Commentary">Benson</a> • <a href="/commentaries/illustrator/joshua/19.htm" title="Biblical Illustrator">BI</a> • <a href="/commentaries/calvin/joshua/19.htm" title="Calvin's Commentaries">Calvin</a> • <a href="/commentaries/cambridge/joshua/19.htm" title="Cambridge Bible">Cambridge</a> • <a href="/commentaries/clarke/joshua/19.htm" title="Clarke's Commentary">Clarke</a> • <a href="/commentaries/darby/joshua/19.htm" title="Darby's Bible Synopsis">Darby</a> • <a href="/commentaries/ellicott/joshua/19.htm" title="Ellicott's Commentary for English 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Bible">TTB</a> • <a href="/commentaries/wes/joshua/19.htm" title="Wesley's Notes">WES</a> • <a href="#tsk" title="Treasury of Scripture Knowledge">TSK</a></div><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="comtype">EXPOSITORY (ENGLISH BIBLE)</div><a name="mhc" id="mhc"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/mhc/joshua/19.htm">Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary</a></div>19:1-9 The men of Judah did not oppose taking away the cities within their border, when convinced that they had more than was right. If a true believer has obtained an unintended and improper advantage in any thing, he will give it up without murmuring. Love seeketh not her own, and doth not behave unseemly; it will induce those in whom it richly dwells, to part with their own to supply what is lacking to their brethren.<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/joshua/19.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>The inheritance of Simeon was taken out of the portion of Judah, which proved on experience to be larger than the numbers of that tribe required. The Simeonite territory is described by its towns, of which fourteen were in the Negeb, and four others <a href="/joshua/19-7.htm">Joshua 19:7</a> partly in the Negeb and partly in "the valley." On the narrow confines here assigned to Simeon, and its insignificant position altogether among the Twelve tribes, see <a href="/deuteronomy/33-6.htm">Deuteronomy 33:6</a> note.<a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/joshua/19.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>CHAPTER 19<p>Jos 19:1-9. The Lot of Simeon.<p>1. the second lot came forth to Simeon—The next lot that was drawn at Shiloh, gave the tribe of Simeon his inheritance within the territory, which had been assigned to that of Judah. The knowledge of Canaan possessed by the Israelites, when the division of the land commenced, was but very general, being derived from the rapid sweep they had made over it during the course of conquest; and it was on the ground of that rough survey alone that the distribution proceeded, by which Judah received an inheritance. Time showed that this territory was too large (Jos 19:9), either for their numbers, however great, to occupy and their arms to defend, or too large in proportion to the allotments of the other tribes. Justice therefore required (what kind and brotherly feeling readily dictated) a modification of their possession; and a part of it was appropriated to Simeon. By thus establishing it within the original domain of another tribe, the prophecy of Jacob in regard to Simeon was fulfilled (Ge 49:7); for from its boundaries being not traced, there is reason to conclude that its people were divided and dispersed among those of Judah; and though one group of its cities named (Jos 19:2-6), gives the idea of a compact district, as it is usually represented by map makers, the other group (Jos 19:7, 8) were situated, two in the south, and two elsewhere, with tracts of the country around them.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/poole/joshua/19.htm">Matthew Poole's Commentary</a></div> No text from Poole on this verse. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="gil" id="gil"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gill/joshua/19.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></div>And Eltolad, and Bethul, and Hormah. These were all cities of Judah, <a href="/joshua/15-30.htm">Joshua 15:30</a>; Eltolad is the same with Tolad, and Bethul with Bethuel, <a href="http://biblehub.com/1_chronicles/4-29.htm">1 Chronicles 4:29</a>, and with Chesil, <a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/15-30.htm">Joshua 15:30</a>, mentioned there along with Hormah; See Gill on <a href="/joshua/15-30.htm">Joshua 15:30</a>. <a name="gsb" id="gsb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/gsb/joshua/19.htm">Geneva Study Bible</a></div><span class="cverse2">And Eltolad, and Bethul, and Hormah,</span></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="comtype">EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)</div><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/cambridge/joshua/19.htm">Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges</a></div><span class="bld">4</span>. 6. <span class="ital">Eltolad</span>] See ch. <a href="/joshua/15-30.htm" title="And Eltolad, and Chesil, and Hormah,">Joshua 15:30</a> and <a href="/1_chronicles/4-29.htm" title="And at Bilhah, and at Ezem, and at Tolad,">1 Chronicles 4:29</a>; 1 Chronicles 7. <span class="ital">Bethul</span>, which in the parallel lists, ch. <a href="/joshua/15-30.htm" title="And Eltolad, and Chesil, and Hormah,">Joshua 15:30</a> and <a href="/1_chronicles/4-30.htm" title="And at Bethuel, and at Hormah, and at Ziklag,">1 Chronicles 4:30</a>, appears under the forms of <span class="ital">Chesil</span> or <span class="ital">Bethuel</span>; 8. <span class="ital">Hormah</span>, or Zephath (<a href="/judges/1-17.htm" title="And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they slew the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. And the name of the city was called Hormah.">Jdg 1:17</a>), reduced by Joshua, was originally included in the territory of Judah, see above, ch. <a href="/joshua/15-30.htm" title="And Eltolad, and Chesil, and Hormah,">Joshua 15:30</a>;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Joshua 19:4<a name="kad" id="kad"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/kad/joshua/19.htm">Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament</a></div>Beersheba: see at <a href="/joshua/15-28.htm">Joshua 15:28</a>. Sheba is wanting in the Chronicles, but has no doubt been omitted through a copyist's error, as Shema answers to it in <a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/15-26.htm">Joshua 15:26</a>, where it stands before Moladah just as Sheba does here. - On the names in <a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/19-3.htm">Joshua 19:3-6</a>, see the exposition of <a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/15-28.htm">Joshua 15:28-32</a>. - The sum total given in <a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/19-6.htm">Joshua 19:6</a>, viz., thirteen towns, does not tally, as there are fourteen names. 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