And the coast reacheth to Tabor, and Shahazimah, and Bethshemesh; and the outgoings of their border were at Jordan: sixteen cities with their villages.
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Gill's Exposition
This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Issachar,.... Which fell to them by lot, as before described:
according to their families; was divided among them, according to the number of…
Adam Clarke
Beth-shemesh - The house or temple of the sun; there were several cities or towns of this name in Palestine; an ample proof that the worship of this celestial luminary had generally prevailed in that…
The lot of Issachar ran from Jordan in the east to the great sea in the west, Manasseh on the south, and Zebulun on the north. A numerous tribe, Num 26:25. Tola, one of the judges, was of this tribe,…
Cambridge Bible
and the coast reacheth to Tabor Not the mountain, but a town upon the mountain, given to the Levites (1Ch 6:77), and to Shahazimahand Beth-shemesh. The site of neither of these places is known, for…
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