Commentary on Joshua - Keil & Delitzsch - David Cox

Keil and Delitzsch <strong>Commentary</strong> on the Old Testament
Josh 10:10). From Dan they received Elthekeh and Gibbethon (Josh 19:44), Ajalon
and Gath-rimmon (Josh 19:42,45). From half Manasseh they received Taanach (ch.
17:11; 12:21) and Gath-rimmon - eye to the previous verse, for Bileam (1 Chron
6:70),
i.e., Jibleam (Josh 17:11).
Verse 26. Thus they received ten towns in all.
Verse 27-33. The Gershonites received two towns from eastern Manasseh: Golan
(Josh 20:8; Deut 4:43), and Beeshterah. Beeshterah (contracted from Beth-eshterah ,
the house of Astarte), called Ashtaroth in 1 Chron 6:56, may possibly have been the
capital of king Og ( Ashtaroth-karnaim , Gen 14:5), if not one of the two villages
named Astaroth , which are mentioned by Eusebius in the Onom. ( s. v. Astharothkarnaim
), and are described by Jerome as duo castella in Batanaea, novem inter se
millibus separata inter Adaram et Abilam civitates , though Adara and Abila are too
indefinite to determine the situation with any exactness. At any rate, the present
Busra on the east of the Hauran cannot be thought of for a moment; for this was
called Bo'ssora or Bosorra' ,
i.e., baatsªraah (OT:1224), in ancient times, as it is at the present day (see 1 Macc.
5:26, and Joseph. Ant. xii. 8,
3), and was corrupted into Bostra by the Greeks and Romans. Nor can it be the
present Kul'at Bustra on the north of Banyas upon a shoulder of the Hermon, where
there are the ruins of a magnificent building, probably a temple of ancient date (
Burckhardt , Syr. pp. 93, 94; Rob. Bibl. Res. pp. 414-15), as Knobel supposes, since
the territory of the Israelites did not reach so far north, the land conquered by Joshua
merely extending to Baal-gad,
i.e., Banyas, at the foot of the Hermon (see Josh 11:17), and the land to the east of the
Jordan, or Bashan, only to the Hermon itself, or more correctly, merely to the districts
of Geshuri and Maacah at the south-eastern border of the Hermon (see at Deut
3:8,14).
Verse 28-29. From Issachar they received four towns: Kishon (Josh 19:20), Dabrath
(Josh 19:12), Jarmuth =
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