SEV Biblia, Chapter 19:6
Bet-lebaot, y Saruhén; trece ciudades con sus aldeas;
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Joshua 19:6
Verse 6. Beth-lebaoth] The house or city of lionesses. Probably so called from the numbers of those animals which bred there.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 6. And Bethlebaoth, and Sharuhen , etc.] Whether the first is the same with Lebaoth, a city of Judah, ( Joshua 15:32); and with the Bethleptepha of Josephus f427 , and the Betholene of Pliny f428 , is not certain: in this place secret to have been an idol temple of the Canaanites, dedicated to lions, as in Egypt there was a city called Leontopolis, from whence was the Leontopolitan nome, the inhabitants of which worshipped lions f429 ; and the Egyptians had temples dedicated to them, as Aelianus relates. Both these places are thought to be the same with Bethbirei and Shaaraim in ( 1 Chronicles 4:31); of the latter of which (see Joshua 15:36). Those who take Sheba, ( Joshua 19:2), to be the same with Shema, ( Joshua 15:26), make but one city here, and take away the last, as the Greek version does, and render the word “and their fields”, and so the number still is as follows: thirteen cities and their villages ; the sum total of those enumerated above.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-9 - The men of Judah did not oppose taking away the cities within their border, when convinced that they had more than was right. If a tru believer has obtained an unintended and improper advantage in an thing, he will give it up without murmuring. Love seeketh not her own and doth not behave unseemly; it will induce those in whom it richl dwells, to part with their own to supply what is lacking to their brethren.
Original Hebrew
ובית לבאות 1034 ושׁרוחן 8287 ערים 5892 שׁלשׁ 7969 עשׂרה 6240 וחצריהן׃ 2691
