{"id":6270,"date":"2022-09-24T01:32:42","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T06:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-joshua-1559\/"},"modified":"2022-09-24T01:32:42","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T06:32:42","slug":"exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-joshua-1559","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-joshua-1559\/","title":{"rendered":"Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Joshua 15:59"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align='center'><b><i> And Maarath, and Beth-anoth, and Eltekon; six cities with their villages: <\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n<p><strong>And Maarath, and Bethanoth, and Eltekon<\/strong>,&#8230;. Of these cities we have no account elsewhere; only mention is made of Eltekeh, in the tribe of Dan, <span class='bible'>Jos 19:44<\/span>;<\/p>\n<p><strong>six cities with their villages<\/strong>; these were all in the mountainous part of Judea, as were the two following.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Gill&#8217;s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>(59) Five of these six have been identified.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Ellicott&#8217;s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> [ <strong> 59. <\/strong> <strong> Bethanoth <\/strong> is found in the ruined village Beit-ainun, about three miles northeast of Hebron. &ldquo;The principal ruin is a building eighty-three feet long and seventy-two broad. The remains of the town lie on a gentle slope north of this edifice. The foundations remain, and the streets and forms of the dwellings can still be traced.&rdquo; <em> Robinson.<\/em> ] Between the 59th and 60th verses the LXX in the Codex Alexandrinus and Vaticanus insert another group of eleven cities, namely, <em> Tekoah, Ephratha <\/em> or <em> Bethlehem, Phagor, Aitan, Khulan, Tatam, Thobes, Karem, Galem, Thether, <\/em> and <em> Manocho. <\/em> Whether these cities have been added by the LXX without authority, or were really found in the earliest MSS. of this book, is a question which is not easy to determine. Hengstenberg maintains the former opinion and Keil the latter. Some find a motive for the erasure of the whole group from the Hebrew text in the desire of the Jews to deny that Jesus sprang from the tribe of Judah.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Whedon&#8217;s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And Maarath, and Beth-anoth, and Eltekon; six cities with their villages: And Maarath, and Bethanoth, and Eltekon,&#8230;. Of these cities we have no account elsewhere; only mention is made of Eltekeh, in the tribe of Dan, Jos 19:44; six cities with their villages; these were all in the mountainous part of Judea, as were the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-joshua-1559\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Joshua 15:59&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}