Joshua 19:26

“And Alammelech, and Amad, etc.] Of the two first of these there is no mention elsewhere; and Misheal is the same with Mashal, (<130674>1 Chronicles 6:74); and is by Jerom f459 called Masan, and said to be near Carmel to the sea: and reacheth to Carmel westward; or, “to the sea”, as Carmel is called “Carmel by the sea”, (see Gill on “<244618>Jeremiah 46:18”): it is hereby distinguished from Carmel in the tribe of Judah, (<061555>Joshua 15:55); (Pliny f460 calls it a promontory): and to Shihorlibnath; the Vulgate Latin and Septuagint versions make two places of it: but the sum of the cities after given will not admit of it: more rightly Junius renders it Sihor by Libhath, and takes Sihor to be…”

“to Carmel . . . and to Shihor-libnath--that is, the "black" or "muddy river"; probably the Nahr Belka, below Dor (Tantoura); for that town belonged to Asher (Jos 17:10). Thence the boundary line turned eastward to Beth-dagon, a town at the junction of Zebulun and Naphtali, and ran northwards as far as Cabul, with other towns, among which is mentioned (Jos 19:28) "great Zidon," so called on account of its being even then the flourishing metropolis of the PhÅ“nicians. Though included in the inheritance of Asher, this town was never possessed by them (Jdg 1:31).”

“Helkath, a Levitical town Joshua 21:31, is probably Yerka, a village about seven or eight miles north-west of Acre, in a Wady of the same name. Alammelech was in the “Wady Melik,” which joins the Kishon from the northeast, not far from the sea. Shihor-libnath - i. e. “black-white.” The two words are now generally admitted to be the name of a river, probably the modern “Nahr Zerka,” or Blue River, which reaches the sea about 8 miles south of Dor, and whose name has a correspondence both to black and white. Possibly we have in the occurrence of the term Shihor here a trace of the contact, which was close and continuous in ancient times, between Phoenicia and Egypt Joshua 13:3. Cabul Joshua…”

“Carmel west - ward - Or, Carmel by the sea, to distinguish it from Carmel in the tribe of Judah. This was a place of eminent fruitfulness, agreeable to the prophecy concerning Asher, Gen 49:20. Joshua 19:27”

“Misheal: Situated, according to Eusebius, near mount Carmel, on the sea coast. Jos 21:30; Ch1 6:74, Marshal Carmel: Sa1 15:12; Kg1 18:20, Kg1 18:42; Sol 7:5; Isa 33:9, Isa 35:2, Isa 37:24; Jer 46:18 Joshua 19:27”