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Joshua 19:26

And Alammelech, and Amad, and Misheal; and reacheth to Carmel westward, and to Shihorlibnath;

And Alammelech, and Amad,.... Of the two first of these there is no mention elsewhere;

and Misheal is the same with Mashal, 1 Chronicles 6:74; and is by Jerom {l} called Masan, and said to be near Carmel to the sea:

and reacheth to Carmel westward; or, "to the sea", as Carmel is called "Carmel by the sea", See Gill on "Jeremiah 46:18": it is hereby distinguished from Carmel in the tribe of Judah, Joshua 15:55; (Pliny {m} calls it a promontory):

and to Shihorlibnath; the Vulgate Latin and Septuagint versions make two places of it: but the sum of the cities after given will not admit of it: more rightly Junius renders it Sihor by Libhath, and takes Sihor to be the river Belus, or Pagidus; so called either because of its likeness to the Nile, one of whose names is Sihor, Jeremiah 2:18; or because its waters might be black and muddy; it was the river out of which sand was fetched to make glass of: and Libnath, which has its name from whiteness, the same writer thinks may be the Album Promontorium, or white promontory of Pliny {n}, which he places near Ptolemais, between Ecdippa and Tyre, and is very probable.


{l} De loc. Heb. fol. 93. E.
{m} Ut supra. (Nat. Hist. l. 5. c. 19.)
{n} Ibid.

 

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