Jos 13:3, Judg 10:7, 14:4, 1Sa 4:1-2, 6:18, 13:5, 19-23, 29:2 | TSK | STEP | Sihor. which is counted. five Lords. The Philistine were not descended from Canaan, but from Mizraim, the son of Ham; (compare Ge 10:6 with ver. 13;) yet they were numbered with the Canaanites in this distribution. Avites. Avims.

Joshua 13:3

Sihor.

which is counted.

five Lords.

Jud 3:3; 1Sa 6:4,16,17; Zep 2:4,5The Philistine were not descended from Canaan, but from Mizraim, the son of Ham; (compare Ge 10:6 with ver. 13;) yet they were numbered with the Canaanites in this distribution.

Avites.

De 2:23

Avims.

Judges 10:7

was hot.

2:14; De 29:20-28; 31:16-18; 32:16-22; Jos 23:15,16; Ps 74:1

Na 1:2,6

he sold.

4:2; 1Sa 12:9,10; Ps 44:12; Isa 50:1

Judges 14:4

it was of the Lord.That is, God permitted it, that it might be a means of bringing about the deliverance of Israel. Such marriages were forbidden to the Israelites, to keep them separate from the idolatrous nations.

Jos 11:20; 1Ki 12:15; 2Ki 6:33; 2Ch 10:15; 22:7; 25:20; Ps 115:3

had dominion.

13:1; 15:11; De 28:48

1 Samuel 4:1-2

1 The Israelites are overcome by the Philistines at Ebenezer.

3 They fetch the ark unto the terror of the Philistines.

10 They are smitten again, the ark taken, and Hophni and Phinehas are slain.

12 Eli at the news, falling backward, breaks his neck.

19 Phinehas's wife, discouraged in her travail with I-chabod, dies.

A.M. 2863. B.C. 1141. An. Ex. Is. 350. came. or, came topass. Heb. was.

3:11

Eben-ezer.That is, the place afterwards so called: See the Parallel Texts.

5:1; 7:12

Aphek.This Aphek was situated in the tribe of Judah, and is probably the same as Aphekah.

Jos 15:53It must be carefully distinguished from that near Jezreel, and another in Asher.

29:1; Jos 19:30; 1Ki 20:30

put.

17:8,21

they joined battle. Heb. the battle was spread. Israel.

Jos 7:5-8,12; Ps 44:9,10

and they.

Ps 79:7,8; 106:40,41; La 3:40

the army. Heb. the array.

1 Samuel 6:18

the five lords.

16; Jos 13:3

great stone of. or, great stone.

1 Samuel 13:5

thirty thousand chariots.The Philistines had no doubt collected troops in this emergency, from all the surrounding nation; but the number of chariots is immensely large beyond any example, and wholly disproportioned to the number of their cavalry. It is probable, therefore, that for {sheloshim aileph,} "thirty thousand," we should read {shelosh aileph,} "three thousand," with the Syriac and Arabic.

as the sand.

Ge 22:17; Jos 11:4; Jud 7:12; 2Ch 1:9; Isa 48:19; Jer 15:8; Ro 9:27

Beth-aven.

14:23; Jos 7:2; 18:12; Ho 4:15; 5:8; 10:5