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Joshua 19:26

Alammelech, Amad, and Mishal. Their border touched Carmel to the west and Shihor Libnath.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Alammelech;   Amad;   Asher;   Mashal;   Misheal;   Shihor-Libnath;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Asher, the Tribe of;   Mountains;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Dan;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Asher;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Misheal;   Shihor-Libnath;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Alammelech;   Asher;   Mishal;   Shihor Libnath;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Allammelech;   Amad;   Asher;   Mashal;   Misheal;   Shihor-Libnath;   Tribes of Israel, the;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Allammelech;   Amad;   Asher;   Carmel;   Joshua;   Mishal;   Shihor-Libnath;   Zebulun;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Asher ;   Lots;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Alammelech ;   Amad ;   Mashal ;   Shihorlibnath ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Asher;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Alam'melech;   A'mad;   Ash'er,;   Mi'shal,;   Shi'hor-Lib'nath;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Acco;   Alammelech;   Allammelech;   Amad;   Joshua, Book of;   Mishal;   Shihor-Libnath;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Asher, Tribe and Territory;   Carmel, Mount;   Navigation;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Allammelech, Amad, and Mishal and reached westward to Carmel and Shihor-libnath.
Hebrew Names Version
and Allammelekh, and `Am`ad, and Mish'al; and it reached to Karmel westward, and to Shichor-Livnat;
King James Version
And Alammelech, and Amad, and Misheal; and reacheth to Carmel westward, and to Shihorlibnath;
Lexham English Bible
Allamelech, Amad, and Mishal; it touches Carmel to the west, and Shihor-Libnat.
English Standard Version
Allammelech, Amad, and Mishal. On the west it touches Carmel and Shihor-libnath,
New Century Version
Allammelech, Amad, and Mishal. The western border touched Mount Carmel and Shihor Libnath.
Amplified Bible
and Allammelech and Amad and Mishal; and on the west it reached to Carmel and to Shihor-libnath.
New American Standard Bible
Allammelech, Amad, and Mishal; and it reached to Carmel on the west and Shihor-libnath.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And Alammelech, and Amad, and Misheal, and came to Carmel Westward, and to Shihor Libnath,
Legacy Standard Bible
and Allammelech and Amad and Mishal; and it reached to Carmel on the west and to Shihor-libnath.
Complete Jewish Bible
Alamelekh, ‘Am‘ad and Mish'al. It extended to the Karmel on the west and to Shichor-Livnat.
Darby Translation
and Allammelech, and Amead, and Mishal; and [the border] reached to Carmel westwards, and to Shihor-libnath,
Easy-to-Read Version
Allammelech, Amad, and Mishal. The western border continued to Mount Carmel and Shihor Libnath.
George Lamsa Translation
Amlekh, Amcar and Amshael; and reached to Carmel westward, and to Shihor, and to Labeth;
Good News Translation
Allam Melech, Amad, and Mishal. On the west it touched Carmel and Shihor Libnath.
Literal Translation
and Alammelech, and Amad, and Misheal, and reaches to Carmel westward, and to Shihor-libnath.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Alamelech, Amead, Miseal, and borderth on Carmel vnto the see, and on Sihor, and Libnath,
American Standard Version
and Allammelech, and Amad, and Mishal; and it reached to Carmel westward, and to Shihor-libnath;
Bible in Basic English
And Alammelech and Amad and Mishal, stretching to Carmel on the west and Shihor-libnath;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Alamelech, Amaad, and Miseal: and came to Carmel westwarde, and to Sihor Libanath.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
and Allam-melech, and Amad, and Mishal; and it reached to Carmel westward, and to Shihor-libnath.
King James Version (1611)
And Alammelech, and Amad, and Misheal, and reacheth to Carmel westward, and to Shihor-Libnath,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and Elimelech, and Amiel, and Maasa, and the lot will border on Carmel westward, and on Sion, and Labanath.
English Revised Version
and Allammelech, and Amad, and Mishal; and it reached to Carmel westward, and to Shihor-libnath;
Berean Standard Bible
Allammelech, Amad, and Mishal. On the west the border touched Carmel and Shihor-libnath,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and Mesaph, and Elmelech, and Amaad, and Messal; and it cometh `til to Carmel of the see, and Sior, and Labanath; and it turneth ayen,
Young's Literal Translation
and Alammelech, and Amad, and Misheal; and it toucheth against Carmel westward, and against Shihor-Libnath;
Update Bible Version
and Allammelech, and Amad, and Mishal; and it reached to Carmel westward, and to Shihor-libnath;
Webster's Bible Translation
And Alammelech, and Amad, and Misheal; and reacheth to Carmel westward, and to Shihor-libnath;
World English Bible
and Allammelech, and Amad, and Mishal; and it reached to Carmel westward, and to Shihor-libnath;
New King James Version
Alammelech, Amad, and Mishal; it reached to Mount Carmel westward, along the Brook Shihor Libnath.
New Living Translation
Allammelech, Amad, and Mishal. The boundary on the west touched Carmel and Shihor-libnath,
New Life Bible
Allammelech, Amad, and Mishal. It spread west to Carmel and Shihor-libnath.
New Revised Standard
Allammelech, Amad, and Mishal; on the west it touches Carmel and Shihor-libnath,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and Allam-melech and Amad, and Mishal, - and it toucheth Carmel to the west, and Shihor-libnath;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Elmelech and Amaad and Messal: and it reacheth to Carmel by the sea and Sihor and Labanath,
Revised Standard Version
Allam'melech, Amad, and Mishal; on the west it touches Carmel and Shihor-lib'nath,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
and Allammelech and Amad and Mishal; and it reached to Carmel on the west and to Shihor-libnath.

Contextual Overview

24 The fifth lot belonged to the tribe of Asher by its clans. 25 Their territory included Helkath, Hali, Beten, Acshaph, 26 Alammelech, Amad, and Mishal. Their border touched Carmel to the west and Shihor Libnath. 27 It turned eastward toward Beth Dagon, touched Zebulun and the Valley of Iphtah El to the north, as well as the Valley of Emek and Neiel, and extended to Cabul on the north 28 and on to Ebron, Rehob, Hammon, and Kanah, as far as Greater Sidon. 29 It then turned toward Ramah as far as the fortified city of Tyre, turned to Hosah, and ended at the sea near Hebel, Achzib, 30 Umah, Aphek, and Rehob. In all they had twenty-two cities and their towns. 31 This was the land assigned to the tribe of Asher by its clans, including these cities and their towns.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Misheal: Situated, according to Eusebius, near mount Carmel, on the sea coast. Joshua 21:30, 1 Chronicles 6:74, Marshal

Carmel: 1 Samuel 15:12, 1 Kings 18:20, 1 Kings 18:42, Song of Solomon 7:5, Isaiah 33:9, Isaiah 35:2, Isaiah 37:24, Jeremiah 46:18

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 11:29 - General 1 Kings 18:19 - mount Carmel 1 Chronicles 6:75 - Hukok

Cross-References

Genesis 19:17
When they had brought them outside, they said, "Run for your lives! Don't look behind you or stop anywhere in the valley! Escape to the mountains or you will be destroyed!"
Genesis 19:31
Later the older daughter said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is no man anywhere nearby to have sexual relations with us, according to the way of all the world.
Genesis 19:32
Come, let's make our father drunk with wine so we can have sexual relations with him and preserve our family line through our father."
Numbers 16:38
As for the censers of these men who sinned at the cost of their lives, they must be made into hammered sheets for covering the altar, because they presented them before the Lord and sanctified them. They will become a sign to the Israelites."
Proverbs 14:14
The backslider will be paid back from his own ways, but a good person will be rewarded for his.
Hebrews 10:38
But my righteous one will live by faith , and if he shrinks back , I take no pleasure in him .

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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", 1 Chronicles 6:74- :: 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.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Helkath, a Levitical town Joshua 21:31, is probably Yerka, a village about seven or eight miles north-west of Acre, in a Wady of the same name. Alammelech was in the “Wady Melik,” which joins the Kishon from the northeast, not far from the sea.

Shihor-libnath - i. e. “black-white.” The two words are now generally admitted to be the name of a river, probably the modern “Nahr Zerka,” or Blue River, which reaches the sea about 8 miles south of Dor, and whose name has a correspondence both to black and white. Possibly we have in the occurrence of the term Shihor here a trace of the contact, which was close and continuous in ancient times, between Phoenicia and Egypt Joshua 13:3. Cabul Joshua 19:27 still retains its ancient name; it lies between four and five miles west of Jotapata and about ten miles southeast of Acre.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 26. Carmel — The vineyard of God; a place greatly celebrated in Scripture, and especially for the miracles of Elijah; see 1 Kings 18:19-40. The mountain of Carmel was so very fruitful as to pass into a proverb. There was another Carmel in the tribe of Judah, (see Joshua 15:55), but this, in the tribe of Asher, was situated about one hundred and twenty furlongs south from Ptolemais, on the edge of the Mediterranean Sea. Calmet observes that there was, in the time of Vespasian, a temple on this mountain, dedicated to a god of the same name. There was a convent, and a religious order known by the name of Carmelites, established on this mountain in honour of Elijah: the time of the foundation of this order is greatly disputed. Some pretend that it was established by Elijah himself; while others, with more probability, fix it in A.D. 1180 or 1181, under the pontificate of Pope Alexander III.


 
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