The Coastal Plain Boundary of Ashers Inheritance

Joshua 19:24-31 traces the boundary of Asher's tribal inheritance in the western Galilee from the southern frontier at Mount Carmel up the Mediterranean coast to Tyre and Sidon. The opening verses name the inland boundary towns: "And their border was Helkath, and Hali, and Beten, and Achshaph, And Allammelech, and Amad, and Mishal" (Josh 19:25-26). The catalog closes with the summary count: "twenty and two cities with their villages." Like many of Asher's allotment towns, several of these inland frontier sites remained in Canaanite hands long after the conquest, as Judges 1:31-32 candidly acknowledges.

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