Ashers Inland Frontier Towns of the Western Galilee

Joshua 19:24-31 traces the boundary of Asher's tribal inheritance in the western Galilee. After listing the major coastal towns from Acco to Tyre and Sidon, the catalog names a string of inland frontier settlements: "and Allammelech, and Amad, and Mishal" (Joshua 19:26). These towns lay between the coastal plain and the central mountain ridge — territory the tribe of Asher was assigned but never fully controlled, since the older Canaanite urban centers persisted (Judges 1:31). The boundary list closes with the summary: "twenty and two cities with their villages."

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