Joshua 19:38 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And Iron, and Migdalel, Horem, and Bethanath, and Bethshemesh; nineteen cities with their villages. Nineteen cities - But if these cities be separately enumerated they amount to twenty-three; this is probably occasioned by reckoning frontier cities belonging to other tribes, which are only mentioned here as the boundaries of the tribe. See on Joshua 19:30 (note).