Joshua 19:30
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Ummah, Aphek, and Rehob. There were twenty-two cities, along with their villages.
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In the description of the lots of Judah and Benjamin we have an account both of the borders that surrounded them and of the cities contained in them. In that of Ephraim and Manasseh we have the borders, but not the cities; in this chapter Simeon and Dan are described by their cities only, and not their borders, because they lay very much within Judah, especially the former; the rest have both their borders described and their cities names, especially frontiers. Here is, I. The lot of Simeon (Jos 19:1-9). II. Of Zebulun (Jos 19:10-16). III. Of Issachar (Jos 19:17-23). IV. Of Asher (Jos 19:24-31). V. Of Naphtali (Jos 19:32-39). VI. Of Dan (Jos 19:40-48). Lastly, The inheritance assigned to Joshua himself and his own family (Jos 19:49-51).
Open source ↗19:30 The twenty-two towns did not include Tyre and Sidon, which the nation of Israel never controlled.
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Helkath, and Rehob—four cities, together with their pasturelands.
Thus the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now the Israelites went out to meet the Philistines in battle and camped at Ebenezer, while the Philistines camped at Aphek.
from the tribe of Manasseh (a tribe of Joseph), Gaddi son of Susi;
the king of Aphek, one; the king of Lasharon, one;
It went on to Ebron, Rehob, Hammon, and Kanah, as far as Greater Sidon.
to the south, all the land of the Canaanites, from Mearah of the Sidonians to Aphek, as far as the border of the Amorites;
The rest of them fled into the city of Aphek, where the wall fell on twenty-seven thousand of the remaining men. Ben-hadad also fled to the city and hid in an inner room.