» Either 1. Six portions for the ſix Sons, whereof one was Hepher; and becauſe he had no Sons, his part was ſub4ivided into five equal parts, for each ofthe Daughters ; Or, 2. Ten Portions. five for the Sons, and five forthe D.uyhrers ; for as for Hepher, both he and his Son Zelophehad was dead , and that withour Sons, and therefore he bad no Portion; but his Daughters had ſeveral Portions allot. 4 fo them.
6 Becauſe the daughters of Manafſeh had an inheri-
tance among his ſons » : and the reſt of Manaſſchs ſons had the land of Gilead.
| 2 (;.e. ) No leſs than the Sons, ſo their Sex was no barto their Inhericance.
7 © And the coaſt of Manaſſeh was from After to
went along on the right hand, unto tie inhabitants of En- tappuah. 8 Now Manaſlſch had the land of Tappuah : but the
| city of Tappuah on the border of Manailch belonged to the children of Ephraim. 9 And the coaſt deſcended unto the {| river Kanah ſ[o-,Breok WW ſouthward of che river : * theſe cities of Ephraim 0 are of Reeds. | among the cities of Manaſſeh p; the coaſt of Manaſſeh * Chap: alſo a on the north-ſide of the river, and the out- 6% goings of it were at the ſea. 0 Tappuah, and the cities upon the Coaft deſceniing tothe River, %c. laſt menricned. p (7 e. ) Are intermixed with their Cities, which was not ſtrange nor unſir, theſe two being linked rogether by a nearer Alliance than the reſt. Io Southward if was Fphraims, and northward jt was Manaſſehs, and the ſea his border 9, and they met roge-
therin Aſherr on the north, and in Ifſachar on theeaft.
9 Either 1. Manaſchs, whoſe portion 1s h:re deſcribed, and whoſe Name was Jait mentioned. Or, 2. Ephraims and Manaſſths both ex preſſed in the foregoing word, and implied in the foliowing, they. r (7. e. )) Upon the Tribe of 4ſher; for though Zabulun came be= tween £jbe: and them for the greateft parr of their Land; yer it ſeems ther-- were ſome Necksor Parcels of Land, both of Ephraims and of Manaſehks, which jurted out farther thin the reſt, and rouchs ed :he b-rders of 4ſh-r. And it is certain there were many ſuch in- curſions of the Land of cone Tribeup-n ſome parcels of another, al- thoug': they were otherwiſe conſiderably diſtant one from the ot';cr. See Joſh. 19. 34+ And you muſt nor ju.'ge of theſe things by the p:eſ-nt Maps, which are drawa according ro the Opinions of I: re Aurhors, which many times are falſe ; aud they are tr be jud- ged by rhe Scriprure, and not the Scripture by them : Bur, that part of Manaſſeh did reach to 4ſber, appears from hence, that Dor, a Cit+ of Manaſſeh, ve. 11. was, as FY..2 witncflerch, near Carmel, which belonged ro Aſher, Jol. 19. 26.
11 And Man«fleh had in Iifachar, and in Aſher 7, Beth-ſhean and her towns, and Ibleam and her towns, and the inhabitants of Dor « and her towns, and the in- habicants of Endor and her towns, and the inhabitants of Taanach and her towns, and the inhabitants of Me- giado and her rowns, even three Countreys x.
t Ericiier 1, Bordering upon them, as in Aſher is taken v. 10. and as 2arons Rod 15 ſaid ro beinthe ark, 1. e. cloſe by it, Heb. 9. 4, or 2. //'roperly in them, as Ephraim had ſome Cities ih the Tribe of Ma-
ther, or who was alſo the Father of Gileaa ; not of rhe Land of Gi» lead, but of the man Gilead who was Machirs Son, Numb. 26. 29. e He, i. e. Machir, had given great proof of his Valour in his Gener:- tion, ( thou, hrthe particular Hiſtory be not mentioned ) ard his Poſterity were not degenerate Sons, bur had his vahant Blood it11 running in their Veins. f( #. e. ) Part of choſe Covntreys ; for parr of them was alſo given to the Reubenires, and part to the Gadites, as appears from Joſ, 13. 30, 31- This may beadded as a reaſon, either 1. Why he got thoſe places from the Amorites : or 2. Why they were zllotted to him or his Poſteriry, becauſe ri.is was a Fronrier Coun- trey, and the Out-works to the Land of Canaan, and therefore re- quired ſuch valiant perſons to defend it.
2 There was alſo « le g for * the reſt of the children of Manaſſeh h by their families: for the children of Abiezer, and for the children of Helek, and for the children of Aſriel, and for the children of Shechem, nd for the children of Hepher, and for the children of She- mida 2 theſe vere the male children s of Manafſeh the ! ſon of Joſeph by their Families.
g Or, a Portion, er diſtin& Inheritance. þ To wit, thoſe of them which had not received their Pofſefſions beyond Jordan,
Numb. 26. zo, &c, # This expreſſion is uſedro bring in what fol- lows, concerning his Female Children.
26. 22: 3 But* Zeloph-had the {on of Hephir, the ſon of Gi- bh | lead, the ſon of Machir, the ſon of Manafſeh, had no and 36. 2, {Ons but daughters &: and theſe are the names of his
daughters, Mahlah,& Noah, Hcglah,Milcah,and Tirzah. k Of whom ſee on Numb. 26. 33. and 27. '.
4 And they came near before EleaZar the prieſt, and before Joſhua the ſon of Nun, and before the princes faying, The LORD commanded Moſes to give us an in- heritance among our brethren: therefore according to the commandment of the LORD he I gave them an in- hericance among the brethren of cheir father,
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naſlih, Tort. 16. g.and as it was not unuſual,when the placeailotted to ary Tr be was too narrow for it, and the next too large, to give awa. part trom the larger to the leſs portion ; nay ſometimes one w! l- -ribe was taken into another; as Smeon was into Judshs Pare rion, when it was found too large for 7:4, Joſ 19. 9g. « Not the places 0-1, bur the people; whom, contrary to Gods Command
they ſpire? - »d ud for Servants, whom therc fore they are ſaid to hae cx 2 iT fie x This may bereferred either to ſome, to wit, the "ree 'alt p:ces, ortoa!l the places named in this verſe, which are h r- 'a'd, either to have three Countreys or Tratts of L:nd be-
1o5:;,1:.,, to them, or to be in three ſeveral Countreys or Portions, aS *ii.y ſee n to have een, ſome in Iſachar, and ſome in Afber, and © ye; i h helongirg ro Manzaſſeh. Or, the words may be rendred,
the third part of that Countrey ; tor the Hebrew word is of the Singular Nu:inber, and the Avricle ſeems empharical ; and ſo the meaning may be, Thar the Cities and Towns here mentioned are a third part of that Countrey. 7. e. of that part of 1ſachars and Aſhers Por* tion, 12 which tho'e places lays ;