Bible Strands
Joshua 15:62
Nibshan, the City of Salt, and En-gedi—six cities, along with their villages.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The narrator catalogues the specific wilderness territories allocated to Judah, concluding the list of fortified places immediately before recording the tribe's failure to expel the Jebusites from Jerusalem.
The words — The text designates Nibshan as עִיר הַמֶּלַח ('ir ha-melach), literally "city of the salt," and pairs it with עֵין גֶּדִי ('ein gedi), meaning "spring of the kid."
The thread — En-gedi later functions as a fortified refuge for David in 1 Samuel 23:29, while its location in the southern wilderness corridor aligns with the mobilization from beyond the Sea noted in 2 Chronicles 20:2.
Why it lands — The verse first records the exact geographical scope of Judah's inheritance, then requires the reader to note the administrative completeness of the land distribution against the military reality that the tribe could not occupy every assigned site.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And Nibshan, and the city of Salt, and En–gedi; six cities with their villages.
Cross-references
- 1 Samuel 23:29 And David went up from there and lived in the strongholds of En-gedi.
- 2 Chronicles 20:2 Then some men came and told Jehoshaphat, “A vast army is coming against you from Edom, from beyond the Sea; they are already in Hazazon-tamar” (that is, En-gedi).