Joshua 19:21

21 And Rameth and Engannim and Enhadda and Bethpheses.

Joshua 19:21 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 19:21

And Remeth
Remeth seems to be the same with Jarmuth, ( Joshua 21:29 ) ; and with Ramoth, ( 1 Chronicles 6:73 ) ;

and Engannim
seems to be the same with Anem in ( 1 Chronicles 6:73 ) : there were several of this name, which seem to have been places full of gardens, and well watered; for the word signifies a fountain of gardens. Engannim is now called Jenine, distant from Tabor twenty two miles, a place of gardens, of water, and of pleasure, as a traveller

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FOOTNOTES:

F2 of ours tells us; who also declares ^F3, that, in his whole journey from Damascus to Jerusalem, he saw not more fruitful ground, and so much together, than he did in twenty two miles of riding between Mount Tabor and Engannim. This seems to be the same place Mr. Maundrell ^F4 calls Jeneen, a large old town on the outskirts of Esdraelon. Dr. Lightfoot ^F5 is inclined to believe, that Nain, where the widow's son was raised to life, ( Luke 7:11 ) , is the same with Engannim, for which he gives various reasons;

and Enhaddah;
Jerom says, in his time ^F6 there was a village called Enadda, ten miles from Eleutheropolis, as you go from thence to Aelia; but seems not to be the same with Enhaddah here;

and Bethpazzez;
of Bethpazzez no mention is made elsewhere. "Beth" signifies a "house", and "Pazzez" in the Arabic tongue signifies "silver"; so this with the old Canaanites might be a treasure city, like those in Egypt, ( Exodus 1:11 ) . But where a word begins with "Beth", as the name of a place, I always suspect there was an idol temple there; now as the word in Hebrew signifies the same as "Peor", opening, here might be a temple to that deity, or to one that was similar to the god of the Moabites, and design a Priapus, among the Canaanites like that; or as the word in the Syriac and Chaldee languages signifies to redeem, deliver, and save, this temple might be dedicated to some idol as their deliverer and saviour.

F2 Biddulph apud Lightfoot. Talmud. Exercitat. in John iv. 1.
F3 lb. apud Fuller's Pisgah Sight, p. 161.
F4 Journey from Aleppo p. 111.
F5 Chorograph. notes in Luke, p. 370.
F6 Ut supra. (De. loc. Heb. fol. 94. B.)

Joshua 19:21 In-Context

19 And Hapharaim and Seon and Anaharath,

20 And Rabboth and Cesion, Abes,

21 And Rameth and Engannim and Enhadda and Bethpheses.

22 And the border thereof cometh to Thabor and Sehesima and Bethsames: and the outgoings thereof shall be at the Jordan: sixteen cities, and their villages.

23 This is the possession of the sons of Issachar by their kindreds, the cities and their villages.