then on the north the boundary turns about to Hannathon, and it ends at the Valley of Iphtahel;
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 Kattath, and Nahallal,.... Of the two first of these we read nowhere else, but in Jos 21:34, and Shimron was a royal city, the king of which Joshua took and hanged, Jos 11:1, and Idalah is a place Bochart conjectures (t) where the goddess Venus was worshipped, Idalia being one of her names: and Bethlehem is a different place from that which was the...
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