Commentary on Joshua - Keil & Delitzsch - David Cox

Keil and Delitzsch <strong>Commentary</strong> on the Old Testament
Joshua 15:20
This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their
families.
V. 20 contains the closing formula to vv. 1-19, i.e., to the description of the territory
of Judah by its boundaries (vid., Josh 18:20).
Joshua 15:21-63
And the uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of Judah toward the coast of
Edom southward were Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur,
In vv. 21-63 there follows a list of the towns of the tribe of Judah, arranged in the four
districts into which the land was divided, according to the nature of the soil, viz., the
south-land ( negeb ), the lowland ( shephelah ) on the Mediterranean Sea, the
mountains, and the desert of Judah.
Verse 21-32. The towns in the south land. - Negeb (south-land) was the name given
to the southernmost district of Canaan in its full extent, from the Arabah, at the
southern end of the Dead Sea, right across to the coast of the Mediterranean, and
from the southern border of Canaan, as described in vv. 2-4, as far north as Wady
Sheriah , below Gaza, on the western side, and up to the mountains and desert of
Judah on the east, stretching across the wadys of es Seba, Milh , and Ehdeib , above
which that part of Palestine commences where rain is more abundant, and to which,
as we have already observed at Num 13:17, the Negeb formed a kind of intermediate
link between the fertile land and the desert. It was a line of steppe-land, with certain
patches here and there that admitted of cultivation, but in which tracts of heath
prevailed, for the most part covered with grass and bushes, where only grazing could
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