Joshua 19:1
And the second lot came out for Simeon, even for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families; and their inheritance was in the midst of the inheritance of the children of Judah.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
2And they had for their inheritance Beer-sheba with Sheba, and Moladah;
Cross References
Genesis 49:5Simeon and Levi are brethren; weapons of violence their kinship.
Joshua 15:21And the cities at the uttermost part 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 allotment of the children of Judah was the inheritance of the children of Simeon, for the portion of the children of Judah was too much for them; therefore the children of Simeon had inheritance in the midst of their inheritance.
Ezekiel 48:24And by the border of Benjamin, from the east side unto the west side: Simeon, one portion.
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 →