SEV Biblia, Chapter 17:11
Tuvo también Manasés en Isacar y en Aser a Bet-seán y sus aldeas, e Ibleam y sus aldeas, y los moradores de Dor y sus aldeas, y los moradores de Endor y sus aldeas, y los moradores de Taanac y sus aldeas, y los moradores de Meguido y sus aldeas; tres provincias.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Joshua 17:11
Verse 11. Beth-shean] Called afterwards Scythopolis; the city of the Scythians or Cuthites, those who were sent into the different Samaritan cities by the kings of Assyria. Dor] On the Mediterranean Sea, about eight miles from Caesarea, on the road to Tyre En-dor] The well or fountain of Dor, the place where Saul went to consult the witch; 1 Samuel xxviii. 7, &c.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 11. And Manasseh had in Issachar, and in Asher, Bethshean, and her towns , etc.] As Ephraim had cities in Manasseh, so had Manasseh cities in these two tribes, which in some parts bordered on it, before described, even the cities following, and the first that is named is Bethshean: this lay in the tribe of Issachar, and was the uttermost border of Manasseh that way; it was, as Josephus says, called Scythopolis; but not from the Scythians, as Pliny suggests, but from Succoth, a place where Jacob resided, and which was not far from it, ( Genesis 33:17 1 Kings 4:12 7:46); it lay before the great plain of Jezreel, and was at the entrance into it, “After this went they over Jordan into the great plain before Bethsan.” (1 Maccabees 5:52) and was six hundred furlongs, or seventy five miles, from Jerusalem, according to: ``From thence they departed to Scythopolis, which lieth six hundred furlongs from Jerusalem,” (2 Maccabees 12:29) and was one of the cities of Decapolis, from whence our Lord had hearers, ( Matthew 4:25). It was such a pleasant place, that it is said in the Talmud f391 , that if the garden of Eden was in the land of Israel, Bethshean was the gate of it; on which the gloss says, that its fruits were the sweetest in the land of Israel: and Ibleam and her towns ; it seems to be the same with Bileam, by a transposition of the two first letters, ( 1 Chronicles 6:70); and was a place not far from Megiddo, after mentioned, as appears from ( 2 Kings 9:27); and the inhabitants of Dor and her towns ; this had been a royal city, (see Gill on “ Joshua 11:2”) and (see Gill on “ Joshua 12:23”); and the inhabitants of Endor and her towns ; this place became famous for a witch there in the times of Saul, ( 1 Samuel 28:7); in the times of Jerom it was a large village near Mount Tabor, four miles to the south, which he calls Aeudor, of or in Jezreel; and elsewhere he speaks of Endor, as near the town of Nain, where our Lord raised the widow’s son the dead, and is about: Scythopolis: and the inhabitants of Taanach and her towns ; this had been a royal city, (see Gill on “ Joshua 12:22”); and the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns : this was another royal city mentioned with the former; (see Gill on “ Joshua 12:21”); there [even] three countries ; the three last cities, with their towns, that are mentioned, Endor, Taanach, and Megiddo; all which perhaps belonged to Dor, and may be the Naphothdor spoken of ( Joshua 11:2 12:23); where the same word is used as here; so Jarchi interprets it.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 7-13 - There was great communication between Manasseh and Ephraim. Though eac tribe had its inheritance, yet they should intermix one with another to do good offices one to another, as became those, who, though of different tribes, were all one Israel, and were bound to love a brethren. But they suffered the Canaanites to live among them, agains the command of God, to serve their own ends.
Original Hebrew
ויהי 1961 למנשׁה 4519 בישׂשכר 3485 ובאשׁר 836 בית שׁאן 1052 ובנותיה 1323 ויבלעם 2991 ובנותיה 1323 ואת 853 ישׁבי 3427 דאר 1756 ובנותיה 1323 וישׁבי 3427 עין דר 5874 ובנתיה 1323 וישׁבי 3427 תענך 8590 ובנתיה 1323 וישׁבי 3427 מגדו 4023 ובנותיה 1323 שׁלשׁת 7969 הנפת׃ 5316
