Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Joshua 19:7
Ain, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities and their villages:
7. Second Group. 1. Ain = an “ eye ” and also in the vivid imagery of the East, a spring or natural burst of living water, always distinguished from the artificial “well” or “tank” = Beer or Bor. It generally occurs in combination with other words, defining the locality as En-gedi, En-gannim, En-hakkore, En-rogel. In two cases it stands alone, ( a) here, and ( b) in Num 34:11. Mr Wilton ( Negeb, pp. 229 234) would here also connect it with the next name; 2. Remmon, as the name of a single city, Ain or En-Remmon = the spring of the pomegranate, and in the catalogue of the places re-occupied by the Jews after the return from the Captivity the two are joined, and appear in our Version as En-Rimmon, see Neh 11:29; Nehemiah 3. Ether, see ch. Jos 15:42 Van de Velde heard of a Tel Athar in the desert country below Hebron; 4. Ashan, see above, ch. Jos 15:42.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Ain, Remmon,…. Of the two first, which were cities of Judah,
[See comments on Jos 15:32];
and Ether, and Ashan; of the two last, see Gill “Jos 19:42”;
four cities and their villages; Ain, Remmon, therefore, could not be one city, at this time, as it seems to have been in the times of Nehemiah, Ne 11:29; or otherwise there would have been but three cities.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
‘ Ain, Rimmon and Ether and Ashan. Four cities with their villages.’
For the first two see Jos 15:32 and 1Ch 4:32. Ether and Ashan were in the Shephelah (Jos 15:42).
LXX here combines Ain and Rimmon as one city and includes a further city Tochen (1Ch 4:32), but in 1Ch 4:32 LXX keeps Ain and Rimmon as separate ‘cities’. This suggests that the Hebrew text is correct.
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett
Ain: Jos 15:32
Remmon: Num 33:19, Num 33:20, 1Ch 4:32, Rimmon
Ether: Jos 15:42
Reciprocal: 1Sa 30:30 – Chorashan