Joshua 15:12

And the west border is the great sea and [its] coast. This is the border of the children of Judah round about, according to their families.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

And the west border was to the great sea, and the coast thereof. This is the coast of the children of Judah round about according to their families.

In Context

11And the border went out to the side of Ekron northwards, and the border reached along toward Shicron, and passed mount Baalah, and went toward Jabneel; and the border ended at the sea.

13And to Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a portion among the children of Judah according to the commandment of Jehovah to Joshua, the city of Arba, the father of Anak, that is, Hebron.

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Cross References

Numbers 34:6And as west border ye shall have the great sea, and [its] coast. This shall be your west border.

Joshua 15:47Ashdod, its dependent villages and its hamlets; Gazah, its dependent villages and its hamlets, as far as the torrent of Egypt, and the great sea and [its] coast.

Ezekiel 47:20And the west side shall be the great sea from the border, as far as over against the entering into Hamath: this is the west side.

Matthew Henry on Joshua 15:2-13

The Lot of Judah. ( b. c. 1444.) 1 This 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. 2 And their south border was from the shore of the salt sea, from the bay that looketh southward: 3 And it went out to the south side to Maaleh-acrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and ascended up on the south side unto Kadesh-barnea, and passed along to Hezron, and went up to Adar, and fetched a compass… Read the whole commentary →

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