Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Joshua 19:6
And Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities and their villages:
6. 12. Beth-lebaoth ] contrasted with Lebaoth above, Jos 15:32, is called Beth-birei in 1Ch 4:31; 1 Chronicles 13. Sharuhen = Shilhim in Jos 15:32 = Shaaraim, 1Ch 4:31.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 6. Beth-lebaoth] The house or city of lionesses. Probably so called from the numbers of those animals which bred there.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Thirteen cities, or, towns, as some of them are called. 1Ch 4:32. Nor are all Simeons cities here numbered, for Etam is added, 1Ch 4:32, unless that were built afterward.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
And Bethlebaoth, and Sharuhen,…. Whether the first is the same with Lebaoth, a city of Judah, Jos 15:32; and with the Bethleptepha of Josephus b, and the Betholene of Pliny c, is not certain: in this place secret to have been an idol temple of the Canaanites, dedicated to lions, as in Egypt there was a city called Leontopolis, from whence was the Leontopolitan nome, the inhabitants of which worshipped lions d; and the Egyptians had temples dedicated to them, as Aelianus e relates. Both these places are thought to be the same with Bethbirei and Shaaraim in 1Ch 4:31; of the latter of which see Jos 15:36. Those who take Sheba, Jos 19:2, to be the same with Shema, Jos 15:26, make but one city here, and take away the last, as the Greek version does, and render the word “and their fields”, and so the number still is as follows:
thirteen cities and their villages; the sum total of those enumerated above.
b De Jud. Bell. l. 4. c. 8. sect. 1. c Nat. Hist. l. 5. c. 14. d Strabo. Geograph. l. 17. p. 559. e De Animal. l. 12. c. 7.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Bethlebaoth: Jos 15:32
Reciprocal: 1Ch 4:31 – and Hazarsusim