Joshua 19:39-46

Contemporary English Version

^35-39The Naphtali clans received this region as their tribal land, and it included 19 towns with their surrounding villages. The following towns had walls around them:

Ziddim, Zer, Hammath, Rakkath, Chinnereth, Adamah, Ramah,^[a] Hazor, Kedesh, Edrei,^[b] Enhazor, Iron, Migdalel, Horem, Beth-Anath, and Beth-Shemesh.^[c]

Dan's Land

^40-46Dan was the seventh tribe chosen to receive land, and the region for its clans included the following towns:

Zorah, Eshtaol, Ir-Shemesh,^[d] Shaalabbin, Aijalon, Ithlah, Elon, Timnah, Ekron, Eltekeh, Gibbethon, Baalath, Jehud, Azor,^[e] Beneberak, Gath-Rimmon, Mejarkon, and Rakkon.

Dan's tribal land^[f] went almost as far as Joppa.

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Footnotes

19.35-39 Ramah: Not the same “Ramah” as in 18.25-28 or 19.29-31.
19.35-39 Edrei: Not the same Edrei as the town in Bashan east of the Jordan River where King Og had lived (see 12.4; 13.11,12, 30,31).
19.35-39 Beth-Shemesh: Not the same Beth-Shemesh as in 15.10 or 19.17-23.
19.40-46 Ir-Shemesh: Possibly the same town as the Beth-Shemesh of 15.10.
19.40-46 Azor: Some manuscripts of one ancient translation; the Hebrew text does not have this word.
19.40-46 Gath-Rimmon, Mejarkon, and Rakkon. Dan's tribal land: Or “Gath-Rimmon, and Rakkon. Dan's tribal land also included the Yarkon River and.”