Joshua 15:2
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New International Version (©2011)
Their southern boundary started from the bay at the southern end of the Dead Sea,

New Living Translation (©2007)
The southern boundary began at the south bay of the Dead Sea,

English Standard Version (©2001)
And their south boundary ran from the end of the Salt Sea, from the bay that faces southward.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Their south border was from the lower end of the Salt Sea, from the bay that turns to the south.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And their south border was from the shore of the salt sea, from the bay that looketh southward:

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Their southern border began at the tip of the Dead Sea on the south bay

International Standard Version (©2012)
then from the southern end of the Dead Sea, that is, from the bay that orients toward the Negev,

NET Bible (©2006)
Their southern border started at the southern tip of the Salt Sea,

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The southern border starts from the south end of the Dead Sea

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And their south border was from the shore of the salt sea, from the bay that faces southward:

American King James Version
And their south border was from the shore of the salt sea, from the bay that looks southward:

American Standard Version
And their south border was from the uttermost part of the Salt Sea, from the bay that looketh southward;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Its beginning was from the top of the most salt sea, and from the bay thereof, that looketh to the south.

Darby Bible Translation
And their southern border was from the end of the salt sea, from the tongue that turns southward;

English Revised Version
And their south border was from the uttermost part of the Salt Sea, from the bay that looked southward:

Webster's Bible Translation
And their south border was from the shore of the salt-sea, from the bay that looketh southward:

World English Bible
Their south border was from the uttermost part of the Salt Sea, from the bay that looks southward;

Young's Literal Translation
and to them the south border is at the extremity of the salt sea, from the bay which is looking southward;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

15:1-12 Joshua allotted to Judah, Ephraim, and the half of Manasseh, their inheritances before they left Gilgal. Afterwards removing to Shiloh, another survey was made, and the other tribes had their portion assigned. In due time all God's people are settled.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 2. - The shore of the salt sea. Literally, the extremity, i.e., the south extremity. From the bay. Literally, tongue (so margin). The LXX. translates by λοφία, ridge. The whole southern portion of the sea is cut off from the rest by a peninsula near Kerak, the ancient Kit of Moab. It is called the Lisan. Whoever was the writer of the Book of Joshua, these details prove him to have had an accurate acquaintance with the geography of Palestine. He was no priestly inventor of fables attached to the temple at Jerusalem. Canon Tristram gives a vivid description of the neighbourhood in his 'Land of Israel,' ch. 15. The ridge of Jebel Usdum - one large mass of rock salt - on the west of this "tongue" of water, the salt marsh of the Sebkha on the southwest, with its treeless waste - "not a plant or a leaf could be seen save just under the hills" - and its mirage like that of Sahara, the barren outline of the Lisan itself, to the eastward rising to an elevation of from five to six hundred feet, and the fertile oasis of the Ghor-es-Safieh at the southern extremity of the Dead Sea, give an unique character to this remarkable region.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And their south border was from the shore of the salt sea,.... Sometimes called the dead sea, the sea of Sodom, and the lake Asphaltites, which, as Jarchi observes, was southeast of the land of Israel:

from the bay that looketh southward; or the "tongue", as the Hebrew, which the Targum and Kimchi interpret of a rock or promontory, the point that ran out into the sea, looking to the southeast.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

2. the bay—Hebrew, "tongue." It pushes its waters out in this form to a great distance [Robinson].

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The Territory of Judah
1This then was the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah by their families; even to the border of Edom the wilderness of Zin southward was the uttermost part of the south coast. 2And their south border was from the shore of the salt sea, from the bay that looks southward: 3And it went out to the south side to Maalehacrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and ascended up on the south side to Kadeshbarnea, and passed along to Hezron, and went up to Adar, and fetched a compass to Karkaa: …

Joshua 15:1 The allotment for the tribe of Judah, according to its clans, extended down to the territory of Edom, to the Desert of Zin in the extreme south.
Joshua 15:3 crossed south of Scorpion Pass, continued on to Zin and went over to the south of Kadesh Barnea. Then it ran past Hezron up to Addar and curved around to Karka.