约书亚记 19:25

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

他們的境界包括黑甲、哈利、比田、押煞、

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
他 们 的 境 界 是 黑 甲 、 哈 利 、 比 田 、 押 煞 、

Contextual Overview

²⁴ The fifth part of the land was given to the tribe of Asher. Each family group of Asher received some of the land. ²⁵ Their land included Helkath, Hali, Beten, Acshaph, ²⁶ Allammelech, Amad, and Mishal. The western border touched Mount Carmel and Shihor Libnath. ²⁷ Then it turned east and went to Beth Dagon, touching Zebulun and the Valley of Iphtah El. Then it went north of Beth Emek and Neiel and passed north to Cabul. ²⁸ From there it went to Abdon, Rehob, Hammon, and Kanah and continued to Greater Sidon. ²⁹ Then the border went back south toward Ramah and continued to the strong, walled city of Tyre. There it turned and went toward Hosah, ending at the sea. This was in the area of Aczib, ³⁰ Ummah, Aphek, and Rehob. There were twenty-two towns and their villages. ³¹ These cities and their villages were part of the land that was given to the family groups of Asher.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Helkath: 2 Samuel 2:16

Beten: Probably the same as Bebeten or Batnai, mentioned by Eusebius, eight miles east from Ptolemais; and perhaps the Ecbatana which Pliny places not far from Ptolemais.

Achshaph: Joshua 11:1, Joshua 12:20

Reciprocal: Joshua 21:30 - Mishal 1 Chronicles 6:75 - Hukok

Cross-References

Genesis 13:10
Lot looked all around and saw the whole Jordan Valley and that there was much water there. It was like the Lord 's garden, like the land of Egypt in the direction of Zoar. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)

Genesis 14:3
These kings who were attacked united their armies in the Valley of Siddim (now the Dead Sea).

Psalms 107:34
He made fertile land salty, because the people there did evil.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And their border was Helkath,.... Helkath seems to be the same with Hukok, 1 Chronicles 6:75; and according to Masius it lay ten or twelve miles above Ptolemais;

and Hali, of which we read nowhere else.

and Beten is by Jerom h called Bathne, and was in his time a village by the name of Bethebem, eight miles from Ptolemais to the east. Reland i seems to think it might be the Ecbatana of Pliny k, which he speaks of as near Mount Carmel, and not far from Ptolemais;

and Achshaph was a royal city, whose king was taken by Joshua,

1 Chronicles 6:75- :.

h De loc. Heb. fol. 89. H. i Palestin. Illustrat. tom. 2. p. 617. k Nat. Hist. l. 5. c. 19.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Helkath, a Levitical town Joshua 21:31, is probably Yerka, a village about seven or eight miles north-west of Acre, in a Wady of the same name. Alammelech was in the “Wady Melik,” which joins the Kishon from the northeast, not far from the sea.

Shihor-libnath - i. e. “black-white.” The two words are now generally admitted to be the name of a river, probably the modern “Nahr Zerka,” or Blue River, which reaches the sea about 8 miles south of Dor, and whose name has a correspondence both to black and white. Possibly we have in the occurrence of the term Shihor here a trace of the contact, which was close and continuous in ancient times, between Phoenicia and Egypt Joshua 13:3. Cabul Joshua 19:27 still retains its ancient name; it lies between four and five miles west of Jotapata and about ten miles southeast of Acre.