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The border went up; properly, for the line went from Jordan and the Salt Sea, to the higher grounds nigh Jerusalem; and therefore the line is said to go down, Jos_18:16, because there it takes a contrary course, and goes downwards to Jordan and the sea.
Hinnom; a very pleasant place, but afterwards made infamous, 2Ki_23:10.
Of the Jebusite, i.e. of the city of the Jebusites, which was anciently called Jebusi, Jos_18:28 Jud_19:10.
The same is Jerusalem: it may seem hence, and from Deu_33:12 Jos_18:28 Jud_1:21, that Jerusalem, properly, or at least principally, belonged to Benjamin; and yet it is ascribed to Judah also here, Jos_15:63, and elsewhere, either because a part of the city was allotted to Judah; or because the Benjamites needed or desired the help and conjunction of this powerful tribe of Judah, for the getting and keeping of this most important place. And when the Benjamites had in vain attempted to drive out the Jebusites, this work was at last done by the tribe of Judah, who therefore had an interest in it by the right of war; as Ziklag, which belonged to the tribe of Simeon, being gotten from the Philistines by David, was adjoined by him to his tribe of Judah, 1Sa_27:6.