And the lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up according to their families: and the coast of their lot came forth between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph.
Ver. 11. Between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph.] This was as well as heart could wish; what could God do more for Jacob's darling, and for the fulfilling of Moses's prophecy? Deu 33:12 It is a great happiness doubtless to be well neighboured; and yet a greater to be near the place where God's honour dwelleth. The league betwixt Judah and Benjamin lasted, as if they had been but one tribe, when the rest revolted with Jeroboam. The city of Jerusalem was divided betwixt them, though the greater part of it belonged to Benjamin, and when the Jebusites were to be thence expelled, both these tribes joined their forces together, Judges 1:8 ; Jdg 1:21 as Judah and Simeon did in a like case. Jdg 1:3