{"id":6325,"date":"2022-09-24T01:34:17","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T06:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-joshua-1823\/"},"modified":"2022-09-24T01:34:17","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T06:34:17","slug":"exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-joshua-1823","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-joshua-1823\/","title":{"rendered":"Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Joshua 18:23"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align='center'><b><i> And Avim, and Parah, and Ophrah, <\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n<p> <strong> 23<\/strong>. 7. <em> Avim<\/em> ] Some have regarded this as identical with Ai, which is also called Aija (<span class='bible'>Neh 11:31<\/span>) and Aiath (<span class='bible'>Isa 10:28<\/span>). 8. <em> Parah<\/em> is unknown. 9. <em> Ophrah<\/em> appears to be mentioned again in <span class='bible'>1Sa 13:17<\/span> in describing the spoilers who issued from the Philistine camp at Michmash. Robinson would identify it with <em> El-Taiyibeh<\/em>, a small village 4 miles E.N.E. of <em> Beitin<\/em> (Bethel). This was not the Ophrah of Gideon (<span class='bible'>Jdg 6:11<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Jdg 6:15<\/span>).<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><strong>And Avim, and Parah<\/strong>,&#8230;. Of the two first of these we read nowhere else;<\/p>\n<p><strong>and Ophrah<\/strong> is not the same with Ophrah in <span class='bible'>Jud 6:11<\/span>; that belonged to the tribe of Manasseh, but rather that which was in the land of Shuah, <span class='bible'>1Sa 13:17<\/span>. Jerom calls this place Aphrah, in the tribe of Benjamin, and says o, in his time there was a village called Effrem, five miles from Bethel to the east, which very probably is the same with this.<\/p>\n<p>o De loc. Heb. fol. 88. H.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Gill&#8217;s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> <strong> 23<\/strong>. <strong> <\/strong> <strong> Avim <\/strong> This is supposed by Knobel and others to stand for <em> Ai, <\/em> the city near Beth-el which was among the first destroyed by Joshua. See <span class='bible'>Jos 7:2<\/span>, note. <\/p>\n<p><strong> Parah <\/strong> &ldquo;Jerome states that this village still existed in his time, and was situated five miles east of Beth-el. It seems highly probable that we have this old name retained in the wild glen called Wady Farah, which runs down the eastern declivities of Benjamin. It falls into the Wady Suweinit, and in the fork there are the ruins of an ancient village called Farah.&rdquo; <em> Porter. <\/em> <strong> Ophrah <\/strong> is identified by Robinson with Taiyi-beh, a village five miles northeast of Beth-el, occupying a commanding site, and containing ancient ruins.] <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Whedon&#8217;s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>Ophrah: Situated, according to Eusebius, five miles east of Bethel. 1Sa 13:17 <\/p>\n<p>Reciprocal: Jdg 6:11 &#8211; an angel Mic 1:10 &#8211; Aphrah<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And Avim, and Parah, and Ophrah, 23. 7. Avim ] Some have regarded this as identical with Ai, which is also called Aija (Neh 11:31) and Aiath (Isa 10:28). 8. Parah is unknown. 9. Ophrah appears to be mentioned again in 1Sa 13:17 in describing the spoilers who issued from the Philistine camp at Michmash. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-joshua-1823\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Joshua 18:23&#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-6325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6325","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=6325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}