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 be pointed משׁל) is a contracted form of משׁאל, Josh. 31:30; Jos 19:26; and in 1Ch 6:75, חוּקק is probably an error for חלקת, Jos 21:31; Jos 19:25, occasioned by its being confounded with חקּק in the tribe of Naphtali, Jos 19:34. In 1Ch 6:76 the fact that Kadesh was a city of refuge is not mentioned, as it is in Jos 21:32. חמּון is a shortened form of חמּות־דּאר, Jos 21:32; for this city is called in Jos 19:35 חמּת, from the warm springs in the neighbourhood. Finally, Kirjathaim is contracted in Jos 21:32 into קרתּן.

Verse 77
1Ch 6:77 (Hebrew_Bible_6:62). The cities of the Merarites; cf. Jos 21:34-37. “To the sons of Merari the remaining,” sc. Levites. In Jos 21:34 it is more clearly put הנּותרים הלויּם, for the remaining Merarites are not spoken of. What is intended to be said is, that the Merarites, alone of the Levites, are still to be mentioned. In the tribe of Zebulun, in 1Ch 6:77, only two cities are named, Rimmon and Tabor, instead of the four - Jokneam, Karthah, Dimnah, and Nahalal - in Jos 21:34. The first two names have been dropped out of our text, while רמּונו corresponds to the דּמנה of Joshua, but is a more correct reading, since רמּון occurs in Jos 19:13 among the cities of Zebulun, while דּמנה is not mentioned; and תּבור must consequently correspond to the נהלל in Joshua. Nahalal occurs in Jos 19:15 and in Jdg 1:30, in the form Nahalol, among the cities of Zebulun, and consequently seems to be the more correct name, but has not yet been pointed out with certainty, since its identification with Mâlul (Arabic m‛lûl), south-west from Nazareth, rests upon very slender foundation. Bertheau's conjecture that the name of the city has been dropped out, and that of a more exact description of its position, perhaps תּבר כּסלת גּבוּל על, Jos 19:12, only the last word has remained, is no more probable than that of Movers, that instead of the name of the city, only the neighbourhood in which the city lay, viz., Mount Tabor, is mentioned.

Verses 78-79
1Ch 6:78-79 (Hebrew_Bible_6:63-64). 1Ch 6:78-79 are wanting in some editions of the book of Joshua, but are found in many MSS and in the oldest printed copies, and have been omitted only by an oversight; see on Jos 21:30., note 2. As to the city Bezer, see on Deu 4:43; and concerning Jahzah, Kedemoth, Mephaath,vide on Jos 13:18.

Verses 80-81
1Ch 6:80-81 (Hebrew_Bible_6:65-66). For Ramoth in Gilead, a city of refuge (Jos 21:36), and Mahanaim, see on Jos 13:26; and for Heshbon and Jazer, on Num 21:28, Num 21:32. =Chap. 7= ==Verses