Joshua 19:1
And the second lot came out for the children of Symeon; and their inheritance was in the midst of the lots of the children of Juda.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
2And their lot was Beersabee, and Samaa, and Caladam,
Cross References
Genesis 49:5Symeon and Levi, brethren, accomplished the injustice of their cutting off.
Joshua 15:21And their cities were cities belonging to the tribe of the children of Juda on the borders of Edom by the wilderness, and Bæseleel, and Ara, and Asor,
Joshua 19:9The inheritance of the tribe of the children of Symeon was a part of the lot of Juda, for the portion of the children of Juda was greater than theirs; and the children of Symeon inherited in the midst of their lot.
Ezekiel 48:24And from the borders of Benjamin, from the eastern parts to the western, Symeon, 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 →