Bible Strands
Joshua 15:55
Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Juttah,
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Joshua records the territorial boundaries assigned to the tribe of Judah during the initial distribution of the Promised Land. The words — The Hebrew terms מָעוֹן (maʿôn), כַּרְמֶל (karmel), זִיף (ziyp), and יוּטָה (yûṭâ) function as a straightforward enumeration of named settlements. The thread — These locations are cross-referenced in Joshua 15:24, 1 Samuel 25:2, and 1 Samuel 23:25. Why it lands — The passage lists specific geographic points without elaboration, requiring the reader to treat the land allocation as a concrete historical record rather than a symbolic or generic description.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Juttah,
Cross-references
- Joshua 15:24 Ziph, Telem, Bealoth,
- 1 Samuel 23:25 and Saul and his men went to seek him. When David was told about it, he went down to the rock and stayed in the Wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard of this, he pursued David there.
- 1 Samuel 25:2 Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. He was a very wealthy man with a thousand goats and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing in Carmel.
- 1 Samuel 23:14 And David stayed in the wilderness strongholds and in the hill country of the Wilderness of Ziph. Day after day Saul searched for him, but God would not deliver David into his hand.
- 1 Samuel 25:7 Now I hear that it is time for shearing. When your shepherds were with us, we did not harass them, and nothing of theirs was missing the whole time they were in Carmel.
- 1 Samuel 26:1 Then the Ziphites came to Saul at Gibeah and said, “Is not David hiding on the hill of Hachilah, opposite Jeshimon?”
- 1 Kings 18:42 So Ahab went up to eat and drink. But Elijah climbed to the summit of Carmel, bent down on the ground, and put his face between his knees.
- 2 Chronicles 26:10 Since he had much livestock in the foothills and in the plain, he built towers in the desert and dug many cisterns. And since he was a lover of the soil, he had farmers and vinedressers in the hill country and in the fertile fields.
- Isaiah 35:2 It will bloom profusely and rejoice with joy and singing. The glory of Lebanon will be given to it, the splendor of Carmel and Sharon. They will see the glory of the LORD, the splendor of our God.