Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Joshua 19:30
Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty and two cities with their villages.
30. Ummah also ] Of the three cities here mentioned, Ummah, Aphek, and Rehob, the first and third are unknown. Aphek apparently lay in the extreme north of Asher, and is probably the same place as that alluded to above, ch. Jos 13:4, beyond Sidon, the Aphaca of classical, and the Afka of modern, times.
twenty and two cities ] Which number does not correspond with the cities given, and at present the explanation is not clear.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 30. Twenty and two cities] There are nearly thirty cities in the above enumeration instead of twenty-two, but probably several are mentioned that were but frontier towns, and that did not belong to this tribe, their border only passing by such cities; and on this account, though they are named, yet they do not enter into the enumeration in this place. Perhaps some of the villages are named as well as the cities.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Here are more named, but some of them were not within this tribe, but only bordering places.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
24-31. the fifth lot came out forthe tribe of the children of AsherThe western boundary istraced from north to south through the cities mentioned; the site ofthem, however, is unknown.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Ummah also,…. Ummah is not mentioned any where else;
and Aphek; of which, [See comments on Jos 12:18];
and Rehob; of which, [See comments on Jos 19:28];
twenty and two cities with their villages: there are more set down in the account, but some of them did not belong to the tribe, only were on the border of it.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
30. Ummah Dr. Thomson endeavours to identify it with Alma, in the highlands on the coast.
Aphek See on Jos 13:4. But that Aphek could hardly have been assigned to Asher, being too far beyond his border.
Twenty and two cities It frequently happens that the cities named do not agree with the number given. To adjust this difficulty various assumptions have been made, as noted in Jos 15:32.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
‘ Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob. Twenty two cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families, these cities with their villages.’
Having completed the border description the writer now included these three cities, making twenty two in all. The count does not include those which were only border indicators. Ummah is unknown. Aphek (‘fortress’) is a common name but here may be modern Tell Kurdaneh at the source of the River Na’amein which flows into the Bay of Haifa. For Rehob see on Jos 19:28.
Again the allotment is concluded with the familiar formula, ‘this is the inheritance of –’.
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett
Ver. 30. Twenty and two cities, with their villages If we take away Carmel, a mountain, and Jiphthah-el, a valley, there still remain more than twenty-two cities mentioned in the foregoing verses.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Aphek: Jos 12:18, Jos 13:4, 1Sa 4:1, 1Ki 20:30
Rehob: Jos 19:28, Jos 21:31, Num 13:11
Reciprocal: 1Sa 29:1 – Aphek 1Ki 20:26 – Aphek