Joshua 18:19

and the border passed along to the side of Beth-hoglah northward. And the goings out of the border were at the north bay of the Salt Sea, at the south end of the Jordan. This was the south border.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

And the border passed along to the side of Beth-hoglah northward: and the outgoings of the border were at the north bay of the salt sea at the south end of Jordan: this was the south coast.

In Context

18and it passed along to the side opposite the Arabah northward, and went down to the Arabah,

20And the Jordan was the border of it on the east quarter. This was the inheritance of the sons of Benjamin, by the borders of it round about, according to their families.

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Cross References

Genesis 14:3All these joined together in the valley of Siddim (the same is the Salt Sea).

Numbers 34:3then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the side of Edom. And your south border shall be from the end of the Salt Sea eastward.

Joshua 3:16that the waters which came down from above, stood, and rose up in one heap a great way off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan, and those that went down toward the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off. A

Joshua 15:2And their south border was from the outermost part of the Salt Sea, from the bay that looks southward.

Matthew Henry on Joshua 18:12-28

The Lot of Benjamin. ( b. c. 1444.) 11 And the lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up according to their families: and the coast of their lot came forth between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph. 12 And their border on the north side was from Jordan; and the border went up to the side of Jericho on the north side, and went up through the mountains westward; and the goings out thereof were at the wilderness of Beth-aven. 13 And the border went over from thence toward Luz, to the side of… Read the whole commentary →

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