Joshua - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 238

8 the Spies-wall. Thenoe the boundary asceuds by thc vale of Ben-hiuom to the c1i& of the jebqsites which is south of jerusalem, vghence jhe _1@¤e IO II ascends to the top of the hill which is opposite the vale of Hiuom, west- ward, which is the boundary of the Rephaim, northwards. Them the lime is drawn from the top of the hill to the source of the brook Nefthokh, and goes to the village of Mount Afron, where the boundary ascends to Krith—]arim, where the line turns from the ascent westwards to Mount Sair, and passes the cliff of Mount }arim from the north to Kisalon and descends to Betlvshemesh, and passes to Thimnah, Then the boundary comes to the cliff of Akron ou the north, and the line draws on to Shrikron, and passes the Hill of Balah, and comes to jabnal, which is the termination of the boundary on

I2 the west. But the western boundary is the Great Sea. This is the boun- dary of the sons of judah, including their families. (nc. 1426.) :3 But to Kaleb the son of jefunneh an estate was given amongst the sons of judah, by command of the Even-Lxvruo to joshua, of the four

x4 cities of Ani the Anal;}-—and Kaleb drove out from there the three sons of Anak, Shishi and Akhiman, and Thalmi,-—-the descendants of Anak.

15 Then he descended from there to the 16 people of Debir} where Kaleb said, ‘ Whoever conquers Krith-sefer and captures it, I will give him Aksah my

And Athnial the son of Kenez, the brother of Kaleb, captured it, and he gave him

18 Aksah his daughter as a wife. But when she came he persuaded her to ask her father for a farm; so she dismonnted from her ass,-when

And Give me a blessing 1 Ain-Shemsh.·-—F. F. ) These words

are a very ancient editorial note, probably by Ezra.·—eF. F. ` But the name of Debir was for- with the southern land you have given me;——give me springs of He therefore gave her the These are the possessions of the sons of judah, for their families. These villages were on the borders

of the tribe of the children of judah on the border of Edom towards the south: Kebzal and Adar, and jagir; and Kinah, and Dimonah, and Ada— dah, and Kadesh, and Khatzor, Ithran; Zuf, and Telem, and Baloth; Khatzer and Khadathah, and Kirioth, Khatzronig Amam, and Shima, and

Molda, and Khatzer~Gadah, and Khashman and Bethfalit; and Khat- zer the lower, and Bar-Sheba, and Biziothiah; Balah, and Azim, and Atzam; and Altholad, and Kesil, and Kharmah; and Ziklag, and Madmanah, and Sinsanah; and Libanth and Shilkhim, and Ain, and Rimon, Kabadmah, Asrim, and '1`hisha, and Khatzihan; Bashiilah, Ashthaul, and Tzurah, and Ashuah; and Zinokh, and Ani-banim, Thafokh, and Ainam; jarmoth and Adlam, Sokah, and Azkah; and Sharim, and Arithaim, and Gadrah, and Gadothaim, fourteen towns, and Khazriben; Tzinan, and Khardashah and Migdal-Gad, and Dilan, and Mitzpha, and Zakthal; Lakish, and Batzkath, and Aglon; and Kabon, and Lakhmas, and Kithlish; and Gaderoth, Beth—dagon, and Namah, 20 2I 2*2 26 28 33 34 35 39 and Makedah, sixteen towns- and villages; Libnah, and Athar and 42 Ashan; and jafthakh, and Ashna, 43 and Netzib; and Kailaph, Aktzite, 44 and Marashah, nine towns and villages; Akron and its daughters 45 and villages. From Akron and west· 46 ward all that is about Ashdod, and its villages. Ashdod and its daugh— 47 ters and villages; Azah, and its daughters and villages to the river of Mitzeraim, and the shoreof the Great Sea; and in the highlands 48 Shamir, and jether, and Sokah; Danah, and Kiriah—sana,* and Anab, 4g ) The bracketed words are an old editor's note.;—F. F. ll the followi 9 Ch. 15, vv. 48-·60. Ang bracketed explanations are later editoria notes. '1`herefore I remove them from the gx; to the page foot, their proper place.- ) ) ) F. F. 2 3 8