John Gill Commentary Joshua 19:38

"And Iron, and Migdal-el, Horem, and Beth-anath, and Beth-shemesh; nineteen cities with their villages." — Joshua 19:38 (ASV)

And Iron
Of Iron no mention is made elsewhere;

and Migdalel ,
which Jerom calls Magdiel, he says ^F13 was shown a small village, five miles from Dara, as you go to Ptolemais;

and Horem
is not mentioned anywhere elsewhere;

and Bethanath ;
Jerom also relates ^F14 , that Bathana, in the tribe of Naphtali, was a village that went by the name of Betbanes, fifteen miles from Caesarea;

and Bethshemesh
was another city, in which was a temple dedicated to the sun, when inhabited by the Canaanites; see (Joshua 19:22) ; and so in Bethanath there might be a temple dedicated to some deity, though now uncertain what:

nineteen cities with their villages ;
there are more mentioned, but some of them might be only boundaries, and so belonged to another tribe.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F13: De loc. Heb. fol. 93. L.
• F14: Ibid. fol. 89. H.