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Keil and Delitzsch <strong>Commentary</strong> on the Old Testament Verse 28-30. In vv. 28-30 the towns and boundaries in the northern part of the territory of Asher, on the Phoenician frontier, are given, and the Phoenician cities Sidon, Tyre, and Achzib are mentioned as marking the boundary. First of all we have four towns in v. 28, reaching as far as Sidon, no doubt in the northern district of Asher. Ebron has not yet been traced. As Abdon occurs among the towns which Asher gave up to the Levites (Josh 21:30; 1 Chron 6:59), and in this verse also twenty MSS have the reading Abdon, many writers, like Reland (Pal. p. 514), regard Ebron as a copyist's error for Abdon. This is possible enough, but it is by no means certain. As the towns of Asher are not all given in this list, since Acco, Achlab, and Helba (Judg 1:31) are wanting, Abdon may also have been omitted. But we cannot attach any importance to the reading of the twenty MSS, as it may easily have arisen from Josh 21:30; and in addition to the Masoretic text, it has against it the authority of all the ancient versions, in which the reading Ebron is adopted. But even Abdon cannot be traced with certainty. On the supposition that Abdon is to be read for Ebron, Knobel connects it with the present Abbadiyeh , on the east of Beirut ( Rob. iii. App.; Ritter , Erdk. xvii. pp. 477 and 710), or with Abidat , on the east (not the north) of Jobail (Byblus), mentioned by Burckhardt (Syr. p. 296) and Robinson (iii. App.); though he cannot adduce any other argument in support of the identity of Abdon with these two places, which are only known by name at present, except the resemblance in their names. On the supposition, however, that Abdon is not the same as Ebron, Van de Velde's conjecture is a much more natural one; namely, that it is to be found in the ruins of Abdeh , on the Wady Kurn, to the north of Acca. Rehob cannot be traced. The name occurs again in v. 30, from which it is evident that there were two towns of this name in the territory of Asher (see at v. 30). Schultz and Van de Velde connect it with the village of Hamûl by the wady of that name, between Ras el Abyad and Ras en Nakura; but this is too far south to be included in the district which reached to great Sidon. Knobel's suggestion would be a more probable one, namely, that it is connected with the village of Hammana , on the east of Beirut, in the district of el Metn , on the heights of Lebanon, where there is now a Maronite monastery (vid., Seetzen , i. p. 260; Rob. iii. App.; and Ritter , xvii. http://207.44.232.113/~bible/comment/ot/k&d/josh/jos120.html (1 of 3) [13/08/2004 01:19:09 p.m.]
Keil and Delitzsch <strong>Commentary</strong> on the Old Testament pp. 676 and 710), if it could only be shown that the territory of Asher reached as far to the east as this. Kanah cannot be the village of Kâna , not far from Tyre ( Rob. iii. p. 384), but must have been farther north, and near to Sidon, though it has not yet been discovered. For the supposition that it is connected with the existing place called Ain Kanieh ( Rob. iii. App.; Ritter , xvii. pp. 94 and 703), on the north of Jezzin, is overthrown by the fact that that place is too far to the east to be thought of in this connection; and neither Robinson nor Ritter makes any allusion to "Ain Kana , in the neighbourhood of Jurjera, six hours to the south-east of Sidon," which Knobel mentions without quoting his authority, so that the existence of such a place is very questionable. On Sidon , now Saida , see at Josh 11:8. Verse 29-31. "And the boundary turned (probably from the territory of Sidon) to Ramah, to the fortified town of Zor." Robinson supposes that Rama is to be found in the village of Rameh , on the south-east of Tyre, where several ancient sarcophagi are to be seen (Bibl. Res. p. 63). "The fortified town of Zor," i.e., Tyre, is not the insular Tyre, but the town of Tyre, which was on the mainland, the present Sur , which is situated by the sea-coast, in a beautiful and fertile plain (see Ritter , Erdk. xvii. p. 320, and Movers , Phönizier, ii. 1, pp. 118ff.). "And the boundary turned to Hosah, and the outgoings thereof were at the sea, by the side of the district of Achzib." Hosah is unknown, as the situation of Kausah , near to the Rameh already mentioned ( Rob. Bibl. Res. p. 61), does not suit in this connection. meechebel (OT:2256), lit. from the district, i.e., by the side of it. Achzib , where the Asherites dwelt with the Canaanites (Judg 1:31-32), is the Ekdippa of the Greeks and Romans, according to the Onom. ( s. v. Achziph ) nine Roman miles, or according to the Itiner. Hieros. p. 584, twelve miles to the north of Acco by the sea, the present Zib , a very large village, three good hours to the north of Acre-a place on the sea-coast, with considerable ruins of antiquity (see Ges. Thes. p. 674; Seetzen , ii. p. 109; Ritter , xvi. pp. 811-12). - In v. 30 three separate towns are mentioned, which were probably situated in the eastern part of the northern district of Asher, whereas the border towns mentioned in vv. 28 and 29 describe this district in its western half. Ummah (LXX Amma' ) may perhaps have been preserved in Kefr http://207.44.232.113/~bible/comment/ot/k&d/josh/jos120.html (2 of 3) [13/08/2004 01:19:09 p.m.]
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