Joshua 15:1

And the borders of the tribe of Juda according to their families were from the borders of Idumea from the wilderness of sin, as far as Cades southward.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

2And their borders were from the south as far as a part of the salt sea from the + 15:2 Gr. neck. Heb. tongue. high country that extends southward.

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Cross References

Numbers 26:55The land shall be divided to the names by lot, they shall inherit according to the tribes of their families.

Numbers 34:3And your southern side shall be from the wilderness of Sin to the border of Edom, and your border southward shall + 34:3 Gr. be. extend on the side of the salt sea eastward.

Joshua 18:5And they + 18:5 Gr. went through. came to him: and he divided to them seven portions, saying, Juda shall stand to them a border southward, and the sons of Joseph shall stand to them northward.

Ezekiel 47:19And the southern and south-western coasts are from Thaeman and the city of palm-trees, to the water of Marimoth Cadem, reaching forth to the great sea. This part is the south and southwest.

Matthew Henry on Joshua 15:1

Though the land was not completely conquered, yet being (as was said in the close of the foregoing chapter) as rest from war for the present, and their armies all drawn out of the field to a general rendezvous at Gilgal, there they began to divide the land, though the work was afterwards perfected at Shiloh, ch. xviii. 1 , &c. In this chapter we have the lot of the tribe of Judah, which in this, as in other things, had the precedency. I. The borders or bounds of the inheritance of Judah, ver. 1-12 . II. The… Read the whole commentary →

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