_THEN WE TURNED, AND WENT UP THE WAY TO BASHAN: AND OG THE KING OF BASHAN CAME OUT AGAINST US, HE AND ALL HIS PEOPLE, TO BATTLE AT EDREI._ We turned, and want up the way to Bashan (cf. Numbers 21:33). Bashan-fruitful or flat-now El-Bottein, lay situated to the north of Gilead, and extended as far a... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD SAID UNTO ME, FEAR HIM NOT: FOR I WILL DELIVER HIM, AND ALL HIS PEOPLE, AND HIS LAND, INTO THY HAND; AND THOU SHALT DO UNTO HIM AS THOU DIDST UNTO SIHON KING OF THE AMORITES, WHICH DWELT AT HESHBON._ The Lord said ... Fear him not. His gigantic appearance, and the formidable array of... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO THE LORD OUR GOD DELIVERED INTO OUR HANDS OG ALSO, THE KING OF BASHAN, AND ALL HIS PEOPLE: AND WE SMOTE HIM UNTIL NONE WAS LEFT TO HIM REMAINING._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WE TOOK ALL HIS CITIES AT THAT TIME, THERE WAS NOT A CITY WHICH WE TOOK NOT FROM THEM, THREESCORE CITIES, ALL THE REGION OF ARGOB, THE KINGDOM OF OG IN BASHAN._ We took all his cities - not 'captured,' as Colenso renders it, assuming that this result followed a close and protracted siege, but... [ Continue Reading ]
_ALL THESE CITIES WERE FENCED WITH HIGH WALLS, GATES, AND BARS; BESIDE UNWALLED TOWNS A GREAT MANY._ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THIS VERSE.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WE UTTERLY DESTROYED THEM, AS WE DID UNTO SIHON KING OF HESHBON, UTTERLY DESTROYING THE MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN, OF EVERY CITY._ We utterly destroyed them. It was a war of extermination: all classes of people were put to the sword, and nothing was saved but the cattle, of which an immense amo... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT ALL THE CATTLE, AND THE SPOIL OF THE CITIES, WE TOOK FOR A PREY TO OURSELVES._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WE TOOK AT THAT TIME OUT OF THE HAND OF THE TWO KINGS OF THE AMORITES THE LAND THAT WAS ON THIS SIDE JORDAN, FROM THE RIVER OF ARNON UNTO MOUNT HERMON;_ Hermon, [Septuagint, to Aermoon] - now Jebel-Es-Shiech; the majestic hill on which the long and elevated range of anti-Lebanon terminates as... [ Continue Reading ]
_(WHICH HERMON THE SIDONIANS CALL SIRION; AND THE AMORITES CALL IT SHENIR;)_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_ALL THE CITIES OF THE PLAIN, AND ALL GILEAD, AND ALL BASHAN, UNTO SALCHAH AND EDREI, CITIES OF THE KINGDOM OF OG IN BASHAN._ All the cities of the plain, х_ HAMIYSHOR_ (H4334)] - the downs, the high tableland used topographically for the country east of the Jordan (Numbers 21:20; Joshua 21:9; Josh... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR ONLY OG KING OF BASHAN REMAINED OF THE REMNANT OF GIANTS; BEHOLD, HIS BEDSTEAD WAS A BEDSTEAD OF IRON; IS IT NOT IN RABBATH OF THE CHILDREN OF AMMON? NINE CUBITS WAS THE LENGTH THEREOF, AND FOUR CUBITS THE BREADTH OF IT, AFTER THE CUBIT OF A MAN._ ONLY OG ... REMAINED OF THE REMNANT OF GIANTS -... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THIS LAND, WHICH WE POSSESSED AT THAT TIME, FROM AROER, WHICH IS BY THE RIVER ARNON, AND HALF MOUNT GILEAD, AND THE CITIES THEREOF, GAVE I UNTO THE REUBENITES AND TO THE GADITES._ This land, which we possessed at that time. The whole territory occupied by Sihon was parcelled out among the past... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE REST OF GILEAD, AND ALL BASHAN, BEING THE KINGDOM OF OG, GAVE I UNTO THE HALF TRIBE OF MANASSEH; ALL THE REGION OF ARGOB, WITH ALL BASHAN, WHICH WAS CALLED THE LAND OF GIANTS._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_JAIR THE SON OF MANASSEH TOOK ALL THE COUNTRY OF ARGOB UNTO THE COASTS OF GESHURI AND MAACHATHI; AND CALLED THEM AFTER HIS OWN NAME, BASHAN-HAVOTHJAIR, UNTO THIS DAY._ Jair ... took all the country of Argob. The original inhabitants of the province north of Bashan, comprising 60 cities (Deuteronom... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND I GAVE GILEAD UNTO MACHIR._ I gave Gilead unto Machir. It was only the half of Gilead (Deuteronomy 3:12) which was given to the descendants of Machir, who was now dead.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND UNTO THE REUBENITES AND UNTO THE GADITES I GAVE FROM GILEAD EVEN UNTO THE RIVER ARNON HALF THE VALLEY, AND THE BORDER EVEN UNTO THE RIVER JABBOK, WHICH IS THE BORDER OF THE CHILDREN OF AMMON;_ From Gilead - i:e., not the mountainous region, but the town Ramoth-gilead. EVEN UNTO THE RIVER ARN... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE PLAIN ALSO, AND JORDAN, AND THE COAST THEREOF, FROM CHINNERETH EVEN UNTO THE SEA OF THE PLAIN, EVEN THE SALT SEA, UNDER ASHDOTHPISGAH EASTWARD._ The plain also - i:e., the Arabah, including the Ghor.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND I COMMANDED YOU AT THAT TIME, SAYING, THE LORD YOUR GOD HATH GIVEN YOU THIS LAND TO POSSESS IT: YE SHALL PASS OVER ARMED BEFORE YOUR BRETHREN THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, ALL THAT ARE MEET FOR THE WAR._ I commanded you at that time - (see the notes at Numbers 32:20).... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND I COMMANDED JOSHUA AT THAT TIME, SAYING, THINE EYES HAVE SEEN ALL THAT THE LORD YOUR GOD HATH DONE UNTO THESE TWO KINGS: SO SHALL THE LORD DO UNTO ALL THE KINGDOMS WHITHER THOU PASSEST._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_I PRAY THEE, LET ME GO OVER, AND SEE THE GOOD LAND THAT IS BEYOND JORDAN, THAT GOODLY MOUNTAIN, AND LEBANON._ That goodly mountain, and Lebanon. The name Lebanon denotes 'whiteness,' and was given to that gigantic mountain pile either from the chalky colour of its cliffs, or from its summits being... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT THE LORD WAS WROTH WITH ME FOR YOUR SAKES, AND WOULD NOT HEAR ME: AND THE LORD SAID UNTO ME, LET IT SUFFICE THEE; SPEAK NO MORE UNTO ME OF THIS MATTER._ Speak no more unto me of this matter - i:e., my decree is unalterable.... [ Continue Reading ]
_GET THEE UP INTO THE TOP OF PISGAH, AND LIFT UP THINE EYES WESTWARD, AND NORTHWARD, AND SOUTHWARD, AND_ _ EASTWARD, AND BEHOLD IT WITH THINE EYES: FOR THOU SHALT NOT GO OVER THIS JORDAN._ Get thee up into the top of Pisgah - (see the note at Deuteronomy 34:1).... [ Continue Reading ]