Joshua 15:12

And the west border was to the great sea, and the border thereof. This is the border of the children of Judah round about according to their families.

Revised Version 1895

In The King James Version

And the west border was to the great sea, and the coast thereof. This is the coast of the children of Judah round about according to their families.

In Context

11and the border went out unto the side of Ekron northward: and the border was drawn to Shikkeron, and passed along to mount Baalah, and went out at Jabneel; and the goings out of the border were at the sea.

13And unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a portion among the children of Judah, according to the commandment of the LORD to Joshua, even Kirjath-arba, which Arba was the father of Anak (the same is Hebron).

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Cross References

Numbers 34:6And for the western border, ye shall have the great sea and the border thereof: this shall be your west border.

Joshua 15:47Ashdod, her towns and her villages; Gaza, her towns and her villages; unto the brook of Egypt, and the great sea, and the border thereof.

Ezekiel 47:20And the west side shall be the great sea, from the south border as far as over against the entering in of Hamath. This is the west side.

Matthew Henry on Joshua 15:2-13

The Lot of Judah. ( b. c. 1444.) 1 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. 2 And their south border was from the shore of the salt sea, from the bay that looketh southward: 3 And it went out to the south side to Maaleh-acrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and ascended up on the south side unto Kadesh-barnea, and passed along to Hezron, and went up to Adar, and fetched a compass… Read the whole commentary →

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