Commentary on Joshua - Keil & Delitzsch - David Cox

Keil and Delitzsch <strong>Commentary</strong> on the Old Testament
Acca to Ramleh, as this wady separates Carmel from the small round hills which run
to the south-east (see Rob. Bibl. Res. p. 114, and V. de Velde , i. p. 249). Here the
boundaries of Zebulun and Asher met (v. 27). Mar'ala and Dabbasheth are to be
sought for between Kaimûn and Sarid. The Cod. Vat. has Eagelda' instead of Marila'
(NT:3137). Now, however, little importance we can attach to the readings of the LXX
on account of the senseless way in which its renderings are made-as, for example, in
this very passage, where wª`aalaah `ad-saariyd is rendered Esedekgoo'la - the name
Magelda might suggest a Hebrew reading Magedlah or Mageldah , and thus lead one
to connect the place with the village of Mejeidil ( Rob. Bibl. Res. p. 114), or Mshedil
( Seetzen , ii. p. 143), on the west of Mons praecipitii , though neither of these
travellers visited the place, or has given us any minute description of it.
Its situation upon a mountain would suit Mar'ala , to which the boundary went up
from Sarid. In the case of Dabbasheth , the name, which signifies "lump" (see Isa
30:6), points to a mountain. Upon this Knobel has founded the conjecture that Gibeah
or Gibeath took the place of this uncommon word, and that this is connected with the
Gabathon of the Onom. ( juxta campum Legionis ), the present Jebâta between
Mejeidil and Kaimûn, upon an isolated height on the edge of the mountains which
skirt the plain of Jezreel, where there are signs of a remote antiquity ( Rob. iii. p. 201,
and Bibl. Res. p. 113; Ritter , Erdk. xvi. p. 700); although Tell Thureh (i.e.,
mountain) might be intended, a village upon a low and isolated hill a little farther
south (see Rob. Bibl. Res. p. 116, and Ritter, ut sup. ).
Verse 12. "And from Sarid the boundary turned eastwards toward the sunrising
to the territory of Chisloth-tabor, and went out to Dabrath, and went up
to Japhia." Chisloth-tabor , i.e., according to Kimchi's explanation lumbi Taboris
(French, les flancs ), was at any rate a place on the side of Tabor, possibly the same
as Kesulloth in v. 18, as Masius and others suppose, and probably the same place as
the Xaloth of
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