Joshua 15:1

So then the boundary of the tribe of the sons of Judah, by their families,—reached unto the boundary of Edom, the desert of Zin southward, on the extreme south;

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

2so their south boundary beginneth at the end of the Salt Sea,—from the bay that turneth to the south;

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Cross References

Numbers 26:55Nevertheless by lot, shall the land be apportioned,—by the names of the tribes of their fathers, shall they inherit.

Numbers 34:3Ye shall therefore have a south corner, from the desert of Zin, on the side of Edom,—so shall ye have a south boundary, from the end of the salt sea, eastward:

Joshua 18:5So shall they apportion it for themselves into seven parts,—Let, Judah, stay upon his boundary, on the south, and, the house of Joseph, stay upon their boundary, on the north,

Ezekiel 47:19And for the south side southward, from Tamar as far as the waters of Meriboth-kadesh, towards the torrent bed unto the great sea,—even the south side southward.

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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