But the descendants of Judah could not drive out the Jebusites living in Jerusalem. So to this day the Jebusites live there among the descendants of Judah. But the descendants of JudahThe phrase "descendants of Judah" refers to the tribe of Judah, one of the twelve tribes of Israel, named after Judah, the fourth son of Jacob and Leah. Judah's tribe was known for its leadership and strength, eventually becoming the most prominent tribe, from which King David and ultimately Jesus Christ descended. The Hebrew root for Judah, "Yehudah," means "praise," reflecting the tribe's role in leading Israel in worship and warfare. could not drive out
This phrase indicates a failure to fully conquer and possess the land as God had commanded. The Hebrew word for "drive out" is "yarash," which means to dispossess or take possession. This failure highlights a recurring theme in the Old Testament where the Israelites struggle with incomplete obedience, leading to future complications and conflicts. It serves as a reminder of the importance of full obedience to God's commands. the Jebusites
The Jebusites were a Canaanite tribe inhabiting Jerusalem before its conquest by the Israelites. The name "Jebusite" is derived from "Jebus," the ancient name for Jerusalem. Archaeological evidence suggests that the Jebusites were a well-established people with a fortified city. Their continued presence in Jerusalem symbolizes the persistent challenges and influences of the surrounding pagan cultures on the Israelites. who lived in Jerusalem
Jerusalem, known as "Yerushalayim" in Hebrew, is a city of profound significance throughout biblical history. At this time, it was a Jebusite stronghold. The city's name is thought to mean "foundation of peace," yet it was often a site of conflict. Jerusalem's central role in biblical prophecy and history underscores its spiritual and political importance, eventually becoming the capital of Israel under King David. So the Jebusites live there among the descendants of Judah
This coexistence indicates a compromise that had long-term implications for Israel. The presence of the Jebusites among the Israelites led to cultural and religious influences that were contrary to God's commands. This situation serves as a cautionary tale about the dangers of allowing ungodly influences to persist within a community of faith. to this day
The phrase "to this day" suggests that the text was written at a time when the Jebusites were still present in Jerusalem, indicating the enduring nature of their presence. This phrase is often used in the Bible to emphasize the lasting impact of certain events or decisions. It serves as a reminder of the consequences of incomplete obedience and the enduring nature of God's word and promises. Persons / Places / Events 1. JudahOne of the twelve tribes of Israel, descended from Judah, the fourth son of Jacob and Leah. The tribe of Judah was allotted a significant portion of land in the Promised Land, including Jerusalem. 2. JebusitesA Canaanite tribe that inhabited Jerusalem before and during the time of the Israelite conquest. They were known for their fortified city, which was difficult to conquer. 3. JerusalemA significant city in biblical history, initially inhabited by the Jebusites. It later became the political and spiritual center of Israel under King David. 4. Conquest of CanaanThe period during which the Israelites, under Joshua's leadership, entered and took possession of the Promised Land, as commanded by God. 5. JoshuaThe leader of the Israelites after Moses, tasked with leading the people into the Promised Land and overseeing its division among the tribes. Teaching Points Incomplete ObedienceThe failure of Judah to drive out the Jebusites highlights the consequences of incomplete obedience to God's commands. It serves as a reminder of the importance of fully following God's instructions in our lives. Spiritual StrongholdsJust as the Jebusites remained a stronghold in Jerusalem, we must be vigilant against spiritual strongholds in our lives that resist God's will. Identifying and addressing these areas is crucial for spiritual growth. God's Sovereignty and TimingAlthough the Jebusites remained in Jerusalem for a time, God's plan ultimately prevailed when David conquered the city. This teaches us to trust in God's timing and sovereignty, even when immediate results are not visible. Coexistence with SinThe presence of the Jebusites among the Israelites serves as a warning against allowing sin to coexist in our lives. We must strive to remove sin completely rather than allowing it to persist and influence us. Bible Study Questions 1. What lessons can we learn from Judah's inability to drive out the Jebusites, and how can we apply these lessons to areas of incomplete obedience in our own lives? 2. How does the eventual conquest of Jerusalem by King David demonstrate God's faithfulness and timing, and how can this encourage us in situations where we face persistent challenges? 3. In what ways can spiritual strongholds manifest in our lives today, and what steps can we take to identify and overcome them? 4. How does the coexistence of the Jebusites with the Israelites serve as a metaphor for allowing sin to remain in our lives, and what practical steps can we take to address this issue? 5. How do the instructions in Deuteronomy 7:1-2 regarding the Canaanite nations relate to our call to live a holy life, and what challenges do we face in fully obeying God's commands in our modern context? Connections to Other Scriptures Judges 1:21This verse parallels Joshua 15:63, noting that the Benjamites also failed to drive out the Jebusites from Jerusalem, indicating a persistent issue for the Israelites. 2 Samuel 5:6-7These verses describe how King David eventually conquered Jerusalem from the Jebusites, establishing it as the capital of Israel. Deuteronomy 7:1-2God commands the Israelites to completely destroy the Canaanite nations, including the Jebusites, to prevent them from leading Israel into idolatry. People Achsah, Addar, Ahiman, Anak, Anakites, Arba, Ben, Bohan, Cain, Caleb, Dagon, Debir, Dumah, Eder, Eglon, Ephron, Gad, Gedor, Hezron, Hoglah, Jebusites, Jephunneh, Jezreel, Joshua, Kenaz, Maon, Naamah, Othniel, Pelet, Reuben, Seir, Shamir, Shema, Sheshai, Shual, Talmai, Tappuah, Telem, Timnah, ZurPlaces Achzib, Adadah, Addar, Adullam, Adummim, Ain, Akrabbim, Amam, Anab, Anim, Aphekah, Arab, Ashan, Ashdod, Ashnah, Azekah, Baalah, Bealoth, Beersheba, Beth-anoth, Beth-arabah, Beth-dagan, Beth-hoglah, Beth-pelet, Beth-shemesh, Beth-tappuah, Beth-zur, Biziothiah, Bozkath, Brook of Egypt, Cabbon, Carmel, Chesalon, Chesil, Chitlish, City of Salt, Dannah, Debir, Dilean, Dimonah, Dumah, Eder, Edom, Eglon, Ekron, Eltekon, Eltolad, Enam, En-gannim, Engedi, En-rogel, En-shemesh, Eshan, Eshtaol, Eshtemoh, Ether, Ezem, Gaza, Gederah, Gederoth, Gederothaim, Gedor, Gibeah, Gilgal, Giloh, Great Sea, Hadashah, Halhul, Hazar-gaddah, Hazar-shual, Hazor, Hazor-hadattah, Hebron, Heshmon, Hezron, Holon, Hormah, Humtah, Iim, Iphtah, Ithnan, Jabneel, Jagur, Janim, Jarmuth, Jattir, Jebus, Jerusalem, Jokdeam, Joktheel, Jordan River, Juttah, Kabzeel, Kadesh-barnea, Kain, Keilah, Kerioth-hezron, Kinah, Kiriath-arba, Kiriath-baal, Kiriath-jearim, Kiriath-sannah, Kiriath-sepher, Lachish, Lahmam, Lebaoth, Libnah, Maarath, Madmannah, Makkedah, Maon, Mareshah, Middin, Migdal-gad, Mizpeh, Moladah, Mount Baalah, Mount Ephron, Mount Jearim, Mount Seir, Negeb, Nephtoah, Nezib, Nibshan, Rabbah, Rimmon, Salt Sea, Sansannah, Secacah, Shaaraim, Shamir, Shema, Shikkeron, Shilhim, Socoh, Tappuah, Telem, Timnah, Valley of Achor, Valley of Hinnom, Valley of Rephaim, Zanoah, Zenan, Ziklag, Zin, Zior, Ziph, ZorahTopics Able, Couldn't, Dislodge, Dispossess, Drive, Dwell, Dwelleth, Dwelt, Expel, Inhabitants, Jebusite, Jebusites, Jeb'usites, Jerusalem, Judah, Sons, UnableDictionary of Bible Themes Joshua 15:63 7240 Jerusalem, history
7270 Zion, as a place Joshua 15:1-63 5235 boundary
7266 tribes of Israel Library The Sea of Sodom
The bounds of Judea, on both sides, are the sea; the western bound is the Mediterranean,--the eastern, the Dead sea, or the sea of Sodom. This the Jewish writers every where call, which you may not so properly interpret here, "the salt sea," as "the bituminous sea." In which sense word for word, "Sodom's salt," but properly "Sodom's bitumen," doth very frequently occur among them. The use of it was in the holy incense. They mingled 'bitumen,' 'the amber of Jordan,' and [an herb known to few], with …
John Lightfoot—From the Talmud and HebraicaTiglath-Pileser iii. And the Organisation of the Assyrian Empire from 745 to 722 B. C.
TIGLATH-PILESER III. AND THE ORGANISATION OF THE ASSYRIAN EMPIRE FROM 745 to 722 B.C. FAILURE OF URARTU AND RE-CONQUEST Of SYRIA--EGYPT AGAIN UNITED UNDER ETHIOPIAN AUSPICES--PIONKHI--THE DOWNFALL OF DAMASCUS, OF BABYLON, AND OF ISRAEL. Assyria and its neighbours at the accession of Tiglath-pileser III.: progress of the Aramaeans in the basin of the Middle Tigris--Urartu and its expansion into the north of Syria--Damascus and Israel--Vengeance of Israel on Damascus--Jeroboam II.--Civilisation …
G. Maspero—History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, V 7 John the Baptist --visit of Jesus to John, and his Abode in the Desert of Judea --Adoption of the Baptism of John.
An extraordinary man, whose position, from the absence of documentary evidence, remains to us in some degree enigmatical, appeared about this time, and was unquestionably to some extent connected with Jesus. This connection tended rather to make the young prophet of Nazareth deviate from his path; but it suggested many important accessories to his religious institution, and, at all events, furnished a very strong authority to his disciples in recommending their Master in the eyes of a certain class …
Ernest Renan—The Life of Jesus Divers Matters.
I. Beth-cerem, Nehemiah 3:14. "The stones, as well of the altar, as of the ascent to the altar, were from the valley of Beth-cerem, which they digged out beneath the barren land. And thence they are wont to bring whole stones, upon which the working iron came not." The fathers of the traditions, treating concerning the blood of women's terms, reckon up five colours of it; among which that, "which is like the water of the earth, out of the valley of Beth-cerem."--Where the Gloss writes thus, "Beth-cerem …
John Lightfoot—From the Talmud and Hebraica Epistle xxvi. To Theoctista, Patrician
To Theoctista, Patrician [1704] Gregory to Theoctista, &c. That your Excellency, though placed in so great a tumult of affairs, is full of the fruitfulness of the sacred word, and incessantly pants after eternal joys, for this I give great thanks to Almighty God, in that in you I see fulfilled what is written of the elect fathers, But the children of Israel walked on dry land through the midst of the sea (Exod. xv. 19). But on the other hand, I am come into the depth of the sea, and the storm hath …
Saint Gregory the Great—the Epistles of Saint Gregory the Great Emmaus. Kiriath-Jearim.
"From Beth-horon to Emmaus it was hilly."--It was sixty furlongs distant from Jerusalem.--"To eight hundred only, dismissed the army, (Vespasian) gave a place, called Ammaus, for them to inhabit: it is sixty furlongs distant from Jerusalem." I inquire, whether this word hath the same etymology with Emmaus near Tiberias, which, from the 'warm baths,' was called Chammath. The Jews certainly do write this otherwise... "The family (say they) of Beth-Pegarim, and Beth Zipperia was out of Emmaus."--The …
John Lightfoot—From the Talmud and Hebraica The Coast of the Asphaltites, the Essenes. En-Gedi.
"On the western shore" (of the Asphaltites) "dwell the Essenes; whom persons, guilty of any crimes, fly from on every side. A nation it is that lives alone, and of all other nations in the whole world, most to be admired; they are without any woman; all lust banished, &c. Below these, was the town Engadda, the next to Jerusalem for fruitfulness, and groves of palm-trees, now another burying-place. From thence stands Massada, a castle in a rock, and this castle not far from the Asphaltites." Solinus, …
John Lightfoot—From the Talmud and Hebraica And thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, too little to be among the thousands of Judah
"And thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, too little to be among the thousands of Judah, out of thee shall come forth unto Me (one) [Pg 480] to be Ruler in Israel; and His goings forth are the times of old, the days of eternity." The close connection of this verse with what immediately precedes (Caspari is wrong in considering iv. 9-14 as an episode) is evident, not only from the [Hebrew: v] copulative, and from the analogy of the near relation of the announcement of salvation to the prophecy of disaster …
Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg—Christology of the Old Testament Moses and his Writings
[Illustration: (drop cap W) Clay letter tablet of Moses' time.] We now begin to understand a little of the very beginning of God's Book--of the times in which it was written, the materials used by its first author, and the different kinds of writing from which he had to choose; but we must go a step farther. How much did Moses know about the history of his forefathers, Abraham and Jacob, and of all the old nations and kings mentioned in Genesis, before God called him to the great work of writing …
Mildred Duff—The Bible in its Making The Power of Assyria at Its Zenith; Esarhaddon and Assur-Bani-Pal
The Medes and Cimmerians: Lydia--The conquest of Egypt, of Arabia, and of Elam. As we have already seen, Sennacherib reigned for eight years after his triumph; eight years of tranquillity at home, and of peace with all his neighbours abroad. If we examine the contemporary monuments or the documents of a later period, and attempt to glean from them some details concerning the close of his career, we find that there is a complete absence of any record of national movement on the part of either Elam, …
G. Maspero—History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, V 8 Some Helps to Mourning
Having removed the obstructions, let me in the last place propound some helps to holy mourning. 1 Set David's prospect continually before you. My sin is ever before me' (Psalm 51:3). David, that he might be a mourner, kept his eye full upon sin. See what sin is, and then tell me if there be not enough in it to draw forth tears. I know not what name to give it bad enough. One calls it the devil's excrement. Sin is a complication of all evils. It is the spirits of mischief distilled. Sin dishonours …
Thomas Watson—The Beatitudes: An Exposition of Matthew 5:1-12 Sennacherib (705-681 B. C. )
The struggle of Sennacherib with Judaea and Egypt--Destruction of Babylon. Sennacherib either failed to inherit his father's good fortune, or lacked his ability.* He was not deficient in military genius, nor in the energy necessary to withstand the various enemies who rose against him at widely removed points of his frontier, but he had neither the adaptability of character nor the delicate tact required to manage successfully the heterogeneous elements combined under his sway. * The two principal …
G. Maspero—History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, V 8 Kadesh. Rekam, and that Double. Inquiry is Made, Whether the Doubling it in the Maps is Well Done.
The readers of the eastern interpreters will observe, that Kadesh is rendered by all Rekam, or in a sound very near it. In the Chaldee, it is 'Rekam': in the Syriac, 'Rekem': in the Arabic, 'Rakim'... There are two places noted by the name Rekam in the very bounds of the land,--to wit, the southern and eastern: that is, a double Kadesh. I. Of Kadesh, or Rekam, in the south part, there is no doubt. II. Of it, in the eastern part, there is this mention: "From Rekam to the east, and Rekam is as the …
John Lightfoot—From the Talmud and Hebraica Joshua
The book of Joshua is the natural complement of the Pentateuch. Moses is dead, but the people are on the verge of the promised land, and the story of early Israel would be incomplete, did it not record the conquest of that land and her establishment upon it. The divine purpose moves restlessly on, until it is accomplished; so "after the death of Moses, Jehovah spake to Joshua," i. 1. The book falls naturally into three divisions: (a) the conquest of Canaan (i.-xii.), (b) the settlement of the …
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