John Gill Commentary Joshua 19:26

"and Allammelech, and Amad, and Mishal; and it reached to Carmel westward, and to Shihor-libnath;" — Joshua 19:26 (ASV)

And Alammelech, and Amad
Of the two first of these there is no mention elsewhere;

and Misheal
is the same with Mashal, (1 Chronicles 6:74) ; and is by Jerom

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and reacheth to Carmel westward ;
or, "to the sea", as Carmel is called "Carmel by the sea", (See Gill on Jeremiah 46:18): it is hereby distinguished from Carmel in the tribe of Judah, (Joshua 15:55) ; (Pliny ^F13 calls it a promontory):

and to Shihorlibnath ;
the Vulgate Latin and Septuagint versions make two places of it: but the sum of the cities after given will not admit of it: more rightly Junius renders it Sihor by Libhath, and takes Sihor to be the river Belus, or Pagidus; so called either because of its likeness to the Nile, one of whose names is Sihor, (Jeremiah 2:18) ; or because its waters might be black and muddy; it was the river out of which sand was fetched to make glass of:

And Libnath, which has its name from whiteness, the same writer thinks may be the Album Promontorium, or white promontory of Pliny ^F14 , which he places near Ptolemais, between Ecdippa and Tyre, and is very probable.

FOOTNOTES:

• F13: Ut supra. (Nat. Hist. l. 5. c. 19.)
• F14: Ibid.