Joshua 15:8

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Joshua 15:2-12

The particularity of Judah's lot in the statement of his boundaries, renders it unnecessary to explain it by a comment. If the Reader be fond of tracing the geographical situation of Judah's province, here is ample space left him for that purpose. I only desire him while doing this, not to overlook the several spiritual things to the contemplation of which it leads. As our Lord after the flesh sprang out of Judah, we find here that Judah's lot hath the precedency. And when we behold the great... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Joshua 15:8

Ennom. Hebrew, Ge-ben-Hinnom, or simply Ge-ennom, whence Gehanan has probably been formed. In this vale, children were immolated to Moloc: the beating of drums, to hinder their lamentations from being heard, caused it perhaps to be called Tophet. It was to the east of Jerusalem, (Calmet) inclining to the south. (Haydock) --- Northward. The valley extends south to Bethlehem. (Josephus, [Antiquities?] vii. 10.) Her David gained a great victory, 2 Kings v. 23. (Calmet) --- Woods. This... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 15:1-12

1-12 Joshua allotted to Judah, Ephraim, and the half of Manasseh, their inheritances before they left Gilgal. Afterwards removing to Shiloh, another survey was made, and the other tribes had their portion assigned. In due time all God's people are settled. read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Joshua 15:1-12

The Boundaries of Judah. v. 1. This, then, was the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah by their families, as it was drawn from the urn or as it fell upon casting; even to the border of Edom, the land be longing to the Edomites, south of the Dead Sea, the Wilderness of Zin southward was the uttermost part of the south coast. The territory of Judah thus extended to the very edge of the great desert in which the people had spent so many weary years. v. 2. And their south border was... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Joshua 15:1-63

SECTION SECONDDivision of West Palestine among the Nine and a Half Tribes remaining. Appointment of the Cities of Refuge, and the Cities of the LevitesJoshua 15-211. Territory of the Tribe of JudahJoshua 15:0a. Its BoundariesJoshua 15:1-121This then was the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah by their families; even to the border of Edom, the wilderness of Zin southward was the uttermost part of the south coast. 2And their south border was from the shore [end] of the salt sea, from the... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Joshua 15:1-63

In the settlement of the nine and a half tribes, Judah was the first dealt with as being the imperial and kingly tribe. The position allocated to it was the fighting front. It was touched by enemies on three sides; on the east, Moab; on the west, the Philistines; on the south, Edom. Away to the southwest were the Amalekites. The tribe whose standard was that of the kingly line, and from which that line presently was to spring, was to have its fiber toughened by the sternest... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 15:8

‘ And the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom, to the side (shoulder, sloping hillside) of the Jebusite southward, the same is Jerusalem, and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lies before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the furthest extent of the vale of Rephaim northward.’ The next stage from En-rogel went through the valley of Hinnom (probably, but not certainly, the Wadi al-Rababi) up to the shoulder of the south east hill of Jerusalem (Jerusalem... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 15:1-63

Joshua 15:1-Deuteronomy : reads rather confusedly. The statement is made that the following is the inheritance of Israel— a late writer, wishing to be more exact, says the 9½ tribes, and then proceeds to point out how the number 9½ was obtained. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Joshua 15:8

The border went up; properly, for the line went from Jordan and the Salt Sea, to the higher grounds nigh Jerusalem; and therefore the line is said to go down, Joshua 18:16, because there it takes a contrary course, and goes downwards to Jordan and the sea. Hinnom; a very pleasant place, but afterwards made infamous, 2 Kings 23:10. Of the Jebusite, i.e. of the city of the Jebusites, which was anciently called Jebusi, Joshua 18:28; Judges 19:10. The same is Jerusalem: it may seem hence, and from... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Joshua 15:1-63

THE INHERITANCE OF JUDAHCRITICAL NOTES.—Joshua 15:1. This verse states the position of the lot of Judah in relation to the whole of Canaan; it was in the extreme south of the land. In Joshua 15:2-4 we have given the particulars of the southern border of the southern lot. Joshua 15:2. Their south border] Compare Numbers 34:3-5. The bay that looketh southward] Marg.=“the tongue.” “This tongue is the southernmost portion of the Dead Sea, reaching from the peninsula, which runs out a great distance... read more

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