Commentary on Joshua - Keil & Delitzsch - David Cox

Keil and Delitzsch <strong>Commentary</strong> on the Old Testament
Ain-Jidi , a spring upon a shelf of the high rocky coast on the west of the Dead Sea,
with ruins of different ancient buildings (see Seetzen , ii. pp. 227-8; Rob. ii. pp.
214ff.; Lynch , pp. 178-9, 199, 200).
Verse 63. In v. 63 there follows a notice to the effect that the Judaeans were unable to
expel the Jebusites from Jerusalem, which points back to the time immediately after
Joshua, when the Judaeans had taken Jerusalem and burned it (Judg 1:8), but were
still unable to maintain possession. This notice is not at variance with either Josh
18:28 or Judg 1:21, since it neither affirms that Jerusalem belonged to the tribe of
Judah, nor that Judah alone laid claim to the possession of the town to the exclusion
of the Benjamites (see the explanation of Judg 1:8).
Inheritance of the Tribe of Joseph. Ch. 16-17
The descendants of Joseph drew one lot, that the inheritance of the half tribe of
Manasseh might not be separated from that of the tribe of Ephraim. But the territory
was immediately divided between the two separate tribes of the children of Joseph,
Ephraim receiving the southern portion of the land that had fallen to it by lot, and half
Manasseh the northern. Accordingly we find the southern boundary of the whole
territory described first of all in Josh 16:1-4, both the boundary which separated it
from the tribe of Benjamin (Josh 18:11ff.), and that which divided it from Dan (Dan
19:40 ff.); then the territory of Ephraim is given, with a minute description of the
northern boundary (Josh 16:5-10); and finally the territory assigned to the families of
Manasseh (Josh 17:1-13), without any precise delineation of its northern boundaries,
all that is stated being that the Manassites touched Asher and Issachar towards the
north, and also received some scattered towns with their villages in the territory of
both those tribes (Josh 17:10-11). To this there is appended in vv. 14-18 the
complaint of the children of Joseph concerning the inheritance that had fallen to
them.
Joshua 16:1-4
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