translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: JOS

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “the tent of assembly.” sn On the tent of meeting see Exod 33:7-11 .


text: Heb “and the land was subdued before them.”


text: Heb “there were left among the sons of Israel who had not divided up their inheritance seven tribes.”


text: Heb “How long are you putting off entering and possessing.”


text: Or “fathers.”


text: Heb “I will send them so they may arise and walk about in the land and describe it in writing according to their inheritance and come to me.”


text: Heb “portions.”


text: Heb “stand.”


text: Heb “the house.”


text: Or “the priesthood of the Lord .”


text: Or “inheritance.”


text: Heb “went and passed through.”


text: Heb “and the lot came up for the tribe of the sons of Benjamin.”


text: Heb “and the territory of their allotment went out between the sons of Judah and the sons of Joseph.”


text: For location see Map5-B2 ; Map6-E1 ; Map7-E1 ; Map8-E3 ; Map10-A2 ; Map11-A1 .


text: For location see Map4-G4 ; Map5-C1 ; Map6-E3 ; Map7-D1 ; Map8-G3 .


text: Heb “sons,” here referring to the tribe.


text: Or “side.”


text: Or “ascent.”


text: Heb “to the tongue of the Salt Sea to the north, to the end of the Jordan to the south.” The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for clarity (also in the following verse).


text: Heb “This was the inheritance of the sons of Benjamin by its borders round about, by their clans.”


text: Heb “the sons,” here referring to the tribe.


text: The word “city” is supplied in the translation for clarification.


text: For location see Map5-B1 ; Map6-F3 ; Map7-E2 ; Map8-F2 ; Map10-B3 ; JP1-F4 ; JP2-F4 ; JP3-F4 ; JP4-F4 .


text: The structure of this list presents problems. In v. 28 no conjunction appears before “Haeleph” or “Kiriath” in the Hebrew text. This suggests they should be compounded with the preceding names, yielding “Zelah Haeleph” and “Gibeah Kiriath” respectively. This results in a list of only twelve cities, however, while the summary statement (v. 28 ) gives the number fourteen. One should note, however, that the city lists in chap. do not consistently use the conjunction before the name of each city. See also Josh 19:7 , where no conjunction appears before “Rimmon,” but the summary assumes that Ain and Rimmon are distinct.


text: Heb “This is the inheritance of the sons of Benjamin.”