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Joshua 21:23 Cross-References
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“And out of the tribe of Dan, Eltekeh with her suburbs, Gibbethon with her suburbs,”
Joshua 21:23 (KJV)
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Commentary on Joshua 21:23
Out of the tribe of Dan, Eltekeh with her suburbs, Gibbethon with her suburbs (מִמַּטֵּה־דָן אֶת־אֶלְתְּקֵה וְאֶת־גִּבְּתוֹן, mimateh-Dan et-Eltekeh ve'et-Gibbeton)—The shift to Dan introduces a tragic trajectory. Dan, assigned the fertile coastal plain, failed to drive out the Amorites and was "forced into the hill country" (Judges 1:34-35). Eventually most of the tribe migrated north and established idolatrous worship at Laish/Dan (Judges 18), creating one of Israel's two great apostasy centers under Jeroboam (1 Kings 12:28-30). Gibbethon witnessed this failure firsthand: Israel besieged it ...
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