The fortified cities were Ziddim, Zer, Hammath, Rakkath, Chinnereth,
Joshua 19:35 · WEB
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WEB

The fortified cities were Ziddim, Zer, Hammath, Rakkath, Chinnereth,

KJV

And the fenced cities are Ziddim, Zer, and Hammath, Rakkath, and Chinnereth,

Word study

And the fenced mibtsâr H4013
cities ʻîyr H5892
are Ziddim, Tsiddîym H6661
Zer, Tsêr H6863
and Hammath, Chammath H2575
Rakkath, Raqqath H7557
and Chinnereth, Kinnᵉrôwth H3672

Commentary

Matthew Henry

Naphtali lay furthest north of all the tribes, bordering on Mount Libanus. The city of Leshem, or Liash, lay on the utmost edge of it to the north, and therefore when the Danites had made themselves masters of it, and called it Dan, the length of Canaan from north to south was reckoned from Dan to Beersheba. It had Zebulun on the south, Asher on the west, and Judah upon Jordan, probably a city of that name, and so distinguished from the tribe of Judah on the east. It was in the lot of this tribe, near the waters of Merom, that Joshua fought and routed Jabin, Jos 11:1. etc. In this tribe stood Capernaum and Bethsaida, on the north end of the sea of Tiberias, in which Christ did so many mighty works; and the mountain (as is supposed) on which Christ preached, Mat 5:1.

Adam Clarke

Chinnereth - See the note on Jos 11:2.

John Gill

And Adamah,.... Adamah is different from Adami, Jos 19:33; and may seem to confirm the notion of some, that Nekeb there is an epithet of it, and so distinguishes it from Adamah here:

and Ramah; of Ramah, as there were several places of this name; see Gill on Jos 19:29,

and Hazor was a royal city, of which; see Gill on Jos 11:1.

JFB

Aznoth-tabor--on the east of Tabor towards the Jordan, for the border ran thence to Hukkok, touching upon that of Zebulun; and as the territory of Zebulun did not extend as far as the Jordan, Aznoth-tabor and Hukkok must have been border towns on the line which separated Naphtali from Issachar.

to Judah upon Jordan toward the sunrising--The sixty cities, Havoth-jair, which were on the eastern side of the Jordan, opposite Naphtali, were reckoned as belonging to Judah, because Jair, their possessor, was a descendant of Judah (1Ch. 2:4-22) [KEIL].

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