Joshua 15:1

The land allotted to the tribe of Judah, by clans, reached to the frontier of Edom, far south to the desert of Zin.

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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

2The southern frontier ran from the foot of the Dead Sea, from the bay facing south.

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Cross References

Joshua 18:5They must divide it into seven parts, with Judah in the southern territory and Joseph in the northern.

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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