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Verse	Translation	Text
Jos 15:10	Strong Concordance	And the border [01366] compassed [05437] from Baalah [01173] westward [03220] unto mount [02022] Seir [08165], and passed [05674] along unto the side [03802] of mount [02022] Jearim [03297], which is Chesalon [03693], on the north side [06828], and went down [03381] to Bethshemesh [01053], and passed on [05674] to Timnah [08553]:
	King James	And the border compassed from Baalah westward unto mount Seir, and passed along unto the side of mount Jearim, which is Chesalon, on the north side, and went down to Bethshemesh, and passed on to Timnah:

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Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
Mount Seir is not the well-known range of Edom. The name ( "shaggy mountain") is applicable to any rugged or well-wooded hill. Here it probably denotes the range which runs southwestward from Kirjath-jearim to the Wady Surar. Mount Jearim, i. e. "woody mountain," is through its other name, Chesalon, identified with the modern "Kesla". Beth-shemesh - i. e. "house of the sun," called "Ir-shemesh" or "city of the sun" (Jos 19:41; Compare Kg1 4:9), a place assigned to Dan, and one of the cities which fell by lot to the Levites Jos 21:16. Beth-shemesh was the first place at which the ark rested after its return from the hands of the Philistines Sa1 6:12. It was the residence of one of Solomon's purveyors Kg1 4:9, and was the spot where at a later date Amaziah was defeated and slain by Jehoash (Kg2 14:11 ff). It is no doubt the modern "Ain Shems". Timnah, called also Timnath, and Timnathah, belonged likewise to Dan, and is to be distinguished from other places of like name Gen 38:12; Jos 24:30. Timnah ( "portion") was evidently, like Gilgal, Ramah, Kirjath, and several other towns, of frequent use in Canaanite topography.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]

Mount Seir is not the well-known range of Edom. The name ( "shaggy mountain") is applicable to any rugged or well-wooded hill. Here it probably denotes the range which runs southwestward from Kirjath-jearim to the Wady Surar. Mount Jearim, i. e. "woody mountain," is through its other name, Chesalon, identified with the modern "Kesla".

Beth-shemesh - i. e. "house of the sun," called "Ir-shemesh" or "city of the sun" (Jos 19:41; Compare Kg1 4:9), a place assigned to Dan, and one of the cities which fell by lot to the Levites Jos 21:16. Beth-shemesh was the first place at which the ark rested after its return from the hands of the Philistines Sa1 6:12. It was the residence of one of Solomon's purveyors Kg1 4:9, and was the spot where at a later date Amaziah was defeated and slain by Jehoash (Kg2 14:11 ff). It is no doubt the modern "Ain Shems".

Timnah, called also Timnath, and Timnathah, belonged likewise to Dan, and is to be distinguished from other places of like name Gen 38:12; Jos 24:30. Timnah ( "portion") was evidently, like Gilgal, Ramah, Kirjath, and several other towns, of frequent use in Canaanite topography.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]
Mount Seir - Not that of Edom, but another so called from some resemblance it had to it.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826
Beth-shemesh - The house or temple of the sun. It is evident that the sun was an object of adoration among the Canaanites; and hence fountains, hills, etc., were dedicated to him. Beth-shemesh is remarkable for the slaughter of its inhabitants, in consequence of their prying curiously, if not impiously, into the ark of the Lord, when sent back by the Philistines. See Sa1 6:19.

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³⁰ And they buried [06912] him in the border [01366] of his inheritance [05159] in Timnathserah [08556], which is in mount [02022] Ephraim [0669], on the north side [06828] of the hill [02022] of Gaash [01608].

¹² And in process [07235] of time [03117] the daughter [01323] of Shuah [07770] Judah's [03063] wife [0802] died [04191]; and Judah [03063] was comforted [05162], and went up [05927] unto his sheepshearers [01494] [06629] to Timnath [08553], he and his friend [07453] Hirah [02437] the Adullamite [05726].

¹¹ But Amaziah [0558] would not hear [08085]. Therefore Jehoash [03060] king [04428] of Israel [03478] went up [05927]; and he and Amaziah [0558] king [04428] of Judah [03063] looked [07200] one another in the face [06440] at Bethshemesh [01053], which belongeth to Judah [03063].

⁹ The son of Dekar [01128] [01857], in Makaz [04739], and in Shaalbim [08169], and Bethshemesh [01053], and Elonbethhanan [0358]:

¹² And the kine [06510] took the straight [03474] way [01870] to the way [01870] of Bethshemesh [01053], and went along [01980] the highway [04546] [0259], lowing [01600] as they went [01980], and turned not aside [05493] to the right hand [03225] or to the left [08040]; and the lords [05633] of the Philistines [06430] went [01980] after [0310] them unto the border [01366] of Bethshemesh [01053].

¹⁶ And Ain [05871] with her suburbs [04054], and Juttah [03194] with her suburbs [04054], and Bethshemesh [01053] with her suburbs [04054]; nine [08672] cities [05892] out of those two [08147] tribes [07626].

⁹ The son of Dekar [01128] [01857], in Makaz [04739], and in Shaalbim [08169], and Bethshemesh [01053], and Elonbethhanan [0358]:

⁴¹ And the coast [01366] of their inheritance [05159] was Zorah [06881], and Eshtaol [0847], and Irshemesh [05905],

¹⁹ And he smote [05221] the men [0376] of Bethshemesh [01053], because they had looked [07200] into the ark [0727] of the LORD [03068], even he smote [05221] of the people [05971] fifty [02572] thousand [0505] and threescore and ten [07657] men [0582]: and the people [05971] lamented [056], because the LORD [03068] had smitten [05221] many of the people [05971] with a great [01419] slaughter [04347].