Joshua - 15:12



12 The west border was to the shore of the great sea. This is the border of the children of Judah according to their families.

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Explanation and meaning of Joshua 15:12.

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And the west border was to the great sea, and the coast thereof. This is the coast of the children of Judah round about according to their families.
These are the borders round about of the children of Juda in their kindreds.
And the west border is the great sea and its coast. This is the border of the children of Judah round about, according to their families.
And the limit on the west is the edge of the Great Sea. This is the line going round the land marked out for the children of Judah, by their families.
And as for the west border, the Great Sea was the border thereof. This is the border of the children of Judah round about according to their families.
These are the borders of the sons of Judah, in their families, on all sides.
Porro terminus occidentalis ad mare magnum, et terminum, iste est terminus filiorum Jehuda per circuitum, per familias suas.

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Historical Commentaries

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The great sea - The Mediterranean.

And the west border was to the great sea, and the coast thereof,.... The western border of the tribe of Judah went along by the Mediterranean sea, which lay west to the land of Canaan; and this border reached from Jabneel to the river of Egypt, where the southern border ended, Joshua 15:4,
this is the coast of the children of Judah round about according to their families; but being too large, some part of it was afterwards given to Simeon, and some particular cities of it were given to Daniel and Benjamin: it was bounded on the west by the tribes of Simeon and Daniel towards the Mediterranean sea, and by the tribe of Benjamin on the north, and by the wilderness of Paran on the south, and by the dead sea and Jordan on the east.

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