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Verse	Translation	Text
Jos 19:25	Strong Concordance	And their border [01366] was Helkath [02520], and Hali [02482], and Beten [0991], and Achshaph [0407],
	King James	And their border was Helkath, and Hali, and Beten, and Achshaph,

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Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
Helkath, a Levitical town Jos 21:31, is probably Yerka, a village about seven or eight miles north-west of Acre, in a Wady of the same name. Alammelech was in the "Wady Melik," which joins the Kishon from the northeast, not far from the sea. Shihor-libnath - i. e. "black-white." The two words are now generally admitted to be the name of a river, probably the modern "Nahr Zerka," or Blue River, which reaches the sea about 8 miles south of Dor, and whose name has a correspondence both to black and white. Possibly we have in the occurrence of the term Shihor here a trace of the contact, which was close and continuous in ancient times, between Phoenicia and Egypt Jos 13:3. Cabul Jos 19:27 still retains its ancient name; it lies between four and five miles west of Jotapata and about ten miles southeast of Acre.

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

Helkath, a Levitical town Jos 21:31, is probably Yerka, a village about seven or eight miles north-west of Acre, in a Wady of the same name. Alammelech was in the "Wady Melik," which joins the Kishon from the northeast, not far from the sea.

Shihor-libnath - i. e. "black-white." The two words are now generally admitted to be the name of a river, probably the modern "Nahr Zerka," or Blue River, which reaches the sea about 8 miles south of Dor, and whose name has a correspondence both to black and white. Possibly we have in the occurrence of the term Shihor here a trace of the contact, which was close and continuous in ancient times, between Phoenicia and Egypt Jos 13:3. Cabul Jos 19:27 still retains its ancient name; it lies between four and five miles west of Jotapata and about ten miles southeast of Acre.

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²⁷ And turneth [07725] toward the sunrising [04217] [08121] to Bethdagon [01016], and reacheth [06293] to Zebulun [02074], and to the valley [01516] of Jiphthahel [03317] toward the north side [06828] of Bethemek [01025], and Neiel [05272], and goeth out [03318] to Cabul [03521] on the left hand [08040],

³ From Sihor [07883], which is before [06440] Egypt [04714], even unto the borders [01366] of Ekron [06138] northward [06828], which is counted [02803] to the Canaanite [03669]: five [02568] lords [05633] of the Philistines [06430]; the Gazathites [05841], and the Ashdothites [0796], the Eshkalonites [0832], the Gittites [01663], and the Ekronites [06139]; also the Avites [05761]:

³¹ Helkath [02520] with her suburbs [04054], and Rehob [07340] with her suburbs [04054]; four [0702] cities [05892].