Commentary on Joshua - Keil & Delitzsch - David Cox

Keil and Delitzsch <strong>Commentary</strong> on the Old Testament
at Josh 13:4).
Rehob cannot be traced with certainty. If it is Hub , as Knobel supposes, and the name
Hub , which is borne by a Maronite monastery upon Lebanon, in the diocese of el-
Jebail (to the north-east of Jebail), is a corruption of Rehob , this would be the
northernmost town of Asher (see Seetzen , i. pp. 187ff., and Ritter , xvii. p. 791). The
number "twenty-two towns and their villages" does not tally, as there are twenty-three
towns mentioned in vv. 26-30, if we include Sidon, Tyre, and Achzib, according to
Judg 1:31-32. The only way in which the numbers can be made to agree is to reckon
Nehiel (v. 27) as identical with Neah (v. 13). But this point cannot be determined
with certainty, as the Asherites received other towns, such as Acco and Aclaph,
which are wanting in this list, and may possibly have simply fallen out.
Joshua 19:32-39
The sixth lot came out to the children of Naphtali, even for the children of Naphtali
according to their families.
The Inheritance of Naphtali. - This fell between Asher and the upper Jordan. It
reached northwards to the northern boundary of Canaan, and touched Zebulun and
Issachar on the south. In vv. 33 and 34 the boundary lines are given: viz., in v. 33 the
western boundary towards Asher, with the northern and eastern boundaries: in v. 34
the southern boundary; but with the uncertainty which exists as to several of the
places named, it cannot be traced with certainty.
Verse 33. "Its boundary was (its territory reached) from Heleph, from the oak-forest
at Zaanannim, and Adami Nekeb and Jabneel to Lakkum; and its outgoings were the
Jordan." Heleph is unknown, though in all probability it was to the south of
Zaanannim, and not very far distant. According to Judg 4:11, the oak-forest ( allon:
see the remarks on Gen 12:6) at Zaanannim was near Kedesh , on the north-west of
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