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Joshua 19:46

Joshua 19:46
And Mejarkon, and Rakkon, with the border before Japho.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

And the coast of the children of Dan went out too little for them,.... Being a very numerous tribe, the cities allotted them were not sufficient for them; or rather, leaving out the supplement "too…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Japho (the modern Jaffa, or Yafa), elsewhere (see the margin) called Joppa, is often mentioned in the history of the Maccabees and was, as it still is, the leading port of access to Jerusalem both for…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

Japho - The place since called Joppa, lying on the Mediterranean, and the chief sea-port, in the possession of the twelve tribes.

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Joshua 19:40-48

Dan, though commander of one of the four squadrons of the camp of Israel, in the wilderness, that which brought up the rear, yet was last provided for in Canaan, and his lot fell in the southern part…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Me-jarkon, and Rakkon still remain to be discovered.

with the border before Japho i.e. with the whole district extending to the suburbs opposite to Japho.

Japho ("beauty") is the Hebrew form of the…

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