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19:41">◄</a> Joshua 19:42 <a href="../joshua/19-43.htm" title="Joshua 19:43">►</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 Shaalabbin, and Ajalon, and Jethlah,</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 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He was content to be unfixed, till he saw them all placed, and herein is an example to all in public places, to prefer the common welfare before private advantage. Those who labour most to do good to others, seek an inheritance in the Canaan above: but it will be soon enough to enter thereon, when they have done all the service to their brethren of which they are capable. Nor can any thing more effectually assure them of their title to it, than endeavouring to bring others to desire, to seek, and to obtain it. Our Lord Jesus came and dwelt on earth, not in pomp but poverty, providing rest for man, yet himself not having where to lay his head; for Christ pleased not himself. Nor would he enter upon his inheritance, till by his obedience to death he secured the eternal inheritance for all his people; nor will he account his own glory completed, till every ransomed sinner is put in possession of his heavenly rest.<a name="bar" id="bar"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/barnes/joshua/19.htm">Barnes' Notes on the Bible</a></div>The number of the fortified cities of Naphtali is remarkable, though it does not tally with the catalogue. It was no doubt good policy to protect the northern frontier by a belt of fortresses, as the south was protected by the fenced cities of Judah. Hammath, a Levitical city (compare <a href="/joshua/21-32.htm">Joshua 21:32</a>; <a href="/1_chronicles/6-76.htm">1 Chronicles 6:76</a>), is not to be confounded with the Hamath on the northeastern frontier of the land <a href="/numbers/13-21.htm">Numbers 13:21</a>. The name (from a root signifying "to be warm") probably indicates that hot springs existed here; and is perhaps rightly traced in Ammaus, near Tiberias. Rakkath was, according to the rabbis, rebuilt by Herod and called Tiberias. The name ("bank, shore") suits the site of Tiberias very well. Migdal-el, perhaps the Magdala of <a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/15-39.htm">Matthew 15:39</a>, is now the miserable village of "El Mejdel." <a name="jfb" id="jfb"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/jfb/joshua/19.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></div>Jos 19:40-48. Of Dan.<p>40-46. the seventh lot came out for the tribe … Dan—It lay on the west of Benjamin and consisted of portions surrendered by Judah and Ephraim. Its boundaries are not stated, as they were easily distinguishable from the relative position of Dan to the three adjoining tribes.<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 Shaalabbin,.... The first of these is the same with Shaalbim, <a href="/judges/1-35.htm">Judges 1:35</a>; and which Jerom (r) calls Selab, in the tribe of Dan; and which he says was in his day shown a large village on the borders of Sebaste, by the name of Selaba. <p>and Ajalon is famous for the standing still of the moon in its valley while Joshua pursued his enemies; see Gill on <a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/10-12.htm">Joshua 10:12</a>, <p>and Jethlah, of which we read nowhere else. <p>(r) De loc. Heb. fol. 94. K. <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 Shaalabbin, and Ajalon, and Jethlah,</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">42</span>. <span class="ital">Shaalabbin</span>] <span class="ital">=</span> “<span class="ital">the place of foxes</span>;” comp. the story of Samson, <a href="/judges/15-4.htm" title="And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the middle between two tails.">Jdg 15:4</a>. It appears in <a href="/1_kings/4-9.htm" title="The son of Dekar, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Bethshemesh, and Elonbethhanan:">1 Kings 4:9</a> as the home of one of David’s “mighty men.” For <span class="ital">Ajalon</span> see above, ch. <a href="/joshua/10-12.htm" title="Then spoke Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand you still on Gibeon; and you, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.">Joshua 10:12</a>; <span class="ital">Jethlah</span> has not been identified.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="pul" id="pul"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/joshua/19.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 42.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Aijalon,</span> or Ajalon (see <a href="/joshua/10-12.htm">Joshua 10:12</a>). One of the Levitical cities. Joshua 19:42<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>From Judah the families of Dan received Zorea and Eshtaol (see at <a href="/joshua/15-33.htm">Joshua 15:33</a>), and Ir-shemesh, also called Beth-shemesh (<a href="/1_kings/4-9.htm">1 Kings 4:9</a>), on the border of Judah (see <a href="/joshua/15-10.htm">Joshua 15:10</a>); but of these the Danites did not take possession, as they were given up by Judah to the Levites (<a href="/joshua/21-16.htm">Joshua 21:16</a> : see at <a href="/joshua/15-10.htm">Joshua 15:10</a>). Saalabbin, or Saalbim, which remained in the hands of the Canaanites (<a href="/judges/1-35.htm">Judges 1:35</a>), is frequently mentioned in the history of David and Solomon (<a href="/2_samuel/23-32.htm">2 Samuel 23:32</a>; <a href="/1_chronicles/11-33.htm">1 Chronicles 11:33</a>; <a href="/1_kings/4-9.htm">1 Kings 4:9</a>). It may possibly be the present Selbt (Rob. iii. App.; Bibl. Res. p. 144), some distance to the north of the three places mentioned (Knobel). Ajalon, which was also not taken from the Canaanites (<a href="/judges/1-35.htm">Judges 1:35</a>), was assigned to the Levites (<a href="/joshua/21-24.htm">Joshua 21:24</a>; <a href="/1_chronicles/6-54.htm">1 Chronicles 6:54</a>). It is mentioned in the wars with the Philistines (<a href="/1_samuel/14-31.htm">1 Samuel 14:31</a>; <a href="/1_chronicles/8-13.htm">1 Chronicles 8:13</a>), was fortified by Rehoboam (<a href="/2_chronicles/11-10.htm">2 Chronicles 11:10</a>), and was taken by the Philistines from King Ahaz (<a href="/2_chronicles/28-18.htm">2 Chronicles 28:18</a>). It has been preserved in the village of Yalo (see at <a href="/joshua/10-12.htm">Joshua 10:12</a>). Jethlah is only mentioned here, and has not yet been discovered. So far as the name is concerned, it may possibly be preserved in the Wady Atallah, on the west of Yalo (Bibl. 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