And the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrising, from Baalgad under mount Hermon unto the entering into Hamath.
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Interpretation
At this chapter begins the account of the dividing of the land of Canaan among the tribes of Israel by lot; a narrative showing the performance of the promise made to the fathers, that this land should be given to the seed of Jacob. We are not to pass over these chapters of hard names as useless.
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This thought runs through Joshua 13:1-5.
Glossary
- Baal-gad Place
- Biblical settlement. Modern identification: Tell Haush.
- Gebal Place
- A line (or natural boundary, as a mountain range). (1. ) A tract in the land of Edom south of the Dead Sea ( Ps. 83:7 ); now called Djebal. Modern identification: Byblos.
- Lebanon Place
- Biblical region. Modern identification: Jezzine.
- Lebo-hamath Place
- Biblical settlement. Modern identification: Labweh.
- Mount Hermon Place
- Biblical mountain. Modern identification: Mount Hermon.