Adjoining the territory of Simeon, from the east side to the west, Issachar, one portion.
And at the east side four thousand and five hundred,.... Measures or reeds: this side was equal to the north, as the rest were to this; the whole city in its circumference making an equilateral square: and three gates; which were as follow: one gate of Joseph, one gate of Benjamin, one gate of Dan; Joseph is here as having a gate, though he is...
Simeon--omitted in the blessing of Moses in Deu. 33:1-29 perhaps because of the Simeonite "prince," who at Baal-peor led the Israelites in their idolatrous whoredoms with Midian (Num 25:14).
Eze 48:1-29 The division of the land, like the definition of the boundaries (Eze 47:15), commences in the north, and enumerates the tribes in the order in which they were to receive their inheritances from north to south: first, seven tribes from the northern boundary to the centre of the land (Eze 48:1-7), where the heave for the sanctuary, with the land of the priests...
Commenting on Ezekiel 48:1-29