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Joshua 19:5 <a href="../joshua/19-6.htm" title="Joshua 19:6">►</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 Ziklag, and Bethmarcaboth, and Hazarsusah,</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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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 Ziklag,.... Another of the cities of Judah; see Gill on <a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/15-31.htm">Joshua 15:31</a>, <p>and Bethmarcaboth, and Hazarsusah; or Hazarsusim, as in <a href="/1_chronicles/4-31.htm">1 Chronicles 4:31</a>; the one signifies a chariot house, and the other a court or stable for horses, which made Bochart conjecture (a), that they were places where Solomon kept his chariots and horses; but it should be observed that these were the names by which these places went in the times of the old Canaanites; and seem to me rather where some of their kings had their horses and chariots; or rather where there were temples dedicated to the horses and chariots of the sun; see <a href="/2_kings/23-11.htm">2 Kings 23:11</a>. <p>(a) Hierozoic. l. 2. c. 9. col. 158. <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 Ziklag, and Bethmarcaboth, and Hazarsusah,</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">5</span>. 9. <span class="ital">Ziklag</span>] See ch. <a href="/joshua/15-31.htm" title="And Ziklag, and Madmannah, and Sansannah,">Joshua 15:31</a>, identified by Rowlands and Wilton (<span class="ital">Negeb</span>, p. 209) with <span class="ital">Asloodg</span> or <span class="ital">Kasloodg</span>; (<span class="ital">a</span>) Achish bestowed the town upon David; (<span class="ital">b</span>) here David resided upwards of one year and four months (<a href="/1_samuel/27-7.htm" title="And the time that David dwelled in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months.">1 Samuel 27:7</a>; <a href="/1_samuel/30-14.htm" title="We made an invasion on the south of the Cherethites, and on the coast which belongs to Judah, and on the south of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire.">1 Samuel 30:14</a>; <a href="/1_samuel/30-26.htm" title="And when David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil to the elders of Judah, even to his friends, saying, Behold a present for you of the spoil of the enemies of the LORD;">1 Samuel 30:26</a>); (<span class="ital">c</span>) here he received the news of Saul’s death (<a href="/2_samuel/1-1.htm" title="Now it came to pass after the death of Saul, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had stayed two days in Ziklag;">2 Samuel 1:1</a>; <a href="/2_samuel/4-10.htm" title="When one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good tidings, I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag, who thought that I would have given him a reward for his tidings:">2 Samuel 4:10</a>); 10. <span class="ital">Beth-marcaboth = “house of chariots</span>,” and 11. <span class="ital">Hazar-susah = “village of horses</span>,” appear to be the old names of Madmannah and Sansannah (see ch. <a href="/joshua/15-31.htm" title="And Ziklag, and Madmannah, and Sansannah,">Joshua 15:31</a>). These names indicate, remarks Dean Stanley, “that they were stations of passage, like those which now are to be seen on the great line of Indian transit between Cairo and Suez,” we recognise in them “the dêpots and stations for the ‘horses’ and ‘chariots,’ such as those which in Solomon’s time went to and fro between Egypt and Palestine.” <span class="ital">Sinai and Palestine</span>, p. 160;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Joshua 19:5<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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