From Sarid it goes in the other direction eastward toward the sunrise to the boundary of Chisloth-tabor. From there it goes to Daberath, then up to Japhia.
This is the lot of Zebulun, who, though born of Leah after Issachar, yet was blessed by Jacob and Moses before him; and therefore it was so ordered that his lot was drawn before that of Issachar, north of which it lay and south of Asher. 1.
Commenting on Joshua 19:10-16
And from thence passeth on along on the east to Gittahhepher,.... Which was the native place of Jonah the prophet, Kg2 14:25; and where Jerom says (r) his grave was shown, and was a small village in his time two miles from Sippore, then called Diocaesarea: to Ittahkazin; of this place we have no account elsewhere, but it was not far from the former: and...
OF ZEBULUN. (Jos 19:10-16) the third lot came up for the children of Zebulun--The boundaries of the possession assigned to them extended from the Lake of Chinnereth (Sea of Galilee) on the east, to the Mediterranean on the west. Although they do not seem at first to have touched on the western shore--a part of Manasseh running north into Asher (Jos 17:10) --they afterwards did...
Commenting on Joshua 19:10-16