Joshua 19:1
And the second lot came forth to Simeon, for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families; and their inheritance was within the inheritance of the children of Judah.
Darby Translation
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In Context
2And they had in their inheritance Beer-sheba, and Sheba, and Moladah,
Cross References
Genesis 49:5Simeon and Levi are brethren: Instruments of violence their swords.
Joshua 15:21The cities at the extremity of the tribe of the children of Judah, toward the border of Edom in the south, were: Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur,
Joshua 19:9Out of the lot of the children of Judah was the inheritance of the children of Simeon; for the portion of the children of Judah was too great for them, and the children of Simeon inherited within their inheritance.
Ezekiel 48:24And by the border of Benjamin, from the east side unto the west side, Simeon one.
Matthew Henry on Joshua 19:1
In the description of the lots of Judah and Benjamin we have an account both of the borders that surrounded them and of the cities contained in them. In that of Ephraim and Manasseh we have the borders, but not the cities; in this chapter Simeon and Dan are described by their cities only, and not their borders, because they lay very much within Judah, especially the former; the rest have both their borders described and their cities names, especially frontiers. Here is, I. The lot of Simeon, ver. 1-9 . II. Of… Read the whole commentary →