Joshua 12:1
_Wilderness. Hebrew, "all the plain country ( Arabia) on the east."_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Wilderness. Hebrew, "all the plain country ( Arabia) on the east."_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Galaad. Sehon occupied from the middle of the torrent Arnon, as far as half of the mountains of Galaad, and the torrent Jaboc. (Calmet) --- Og possessed the other half of the mountains northward, while the Ammonites had the eastern parts. (Haydock)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Bethsimoth is ten miles from Jericho, (Eusebius) near the Dead Sea, in the plains of Moab. (Calmet) --- Phasga. Asedoth lay at the foot of this mountain, being well supplied with water. Subjacet Acedoth usque Phasga, the southern limits of Sehon's dominions had "abundance of springs, as far as Phas... [ Continue Reading ]
_Og. See Numbers xxi. 33., and Deuteronomy iii. 11._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Seir. The same expression occurs, chap xi. 17. Hebrew, "from Baalgad, in the vale of Libanus, even unto Mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir." (Haydock) --- Halak means, "bald or naked." It is not know what mountain it denotes. Josue, (Calmet) or the Israelites, (Haydock) conquered "all the country b... [ Continue Reading ]
_Asedoth, or "in the springs," or valleys, ver. 3._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Herma, "a curse," where the Israelites defeated king Arad, Numbers xiv. 45., and xxi. 3._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Odullam, ten miles east of Eleutheropolis, and famous for the retreat of David. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Bethel. Josue perhaps slew the king, but did not take the city, Judges i. 22. (Menochius)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Aphec. A place of this name was in the tribe of Aser, another in that of Juda. --- Saron. Hebrew, "Lasharon;" probably Sarona, (Acts ix. 35,) or a canton near Joppe. (Eusebius)_... [ Continue Reading ]
_Madon, or Maron, Septuagint, chap xi. 1. This place is joined with Semeron, in Hebrew (ver. 20,) improperly. Perhaps it may be the Meros, (Judges v. 23,) or Maronia, a city of Ph\'9cnicia._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thenac, a city of the Levites, but seized afterwards by the Chanaanites, Judges i. 27. It was near the town of Legion, built by the Romans. --- Mageddo, where Josias was overcome, 2 Paralipomenon xxxv. 22. (Calmet)_... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER XII. _ Jachanan was near Mount Carmel. Sometimes Josue specifies both the city and the canton, where it was situated; at other times he only mentions the latter, as in the following verse._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Galgal, not where the Israelites had encamped, but that part which was afterwards called the Galilee of the Gentiles, in some corner of which the king in question had fixed his residence. For we cannot suppose that he ruled over all that country, extending from Tyre to beyond the Jordan. His people... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thersa. Here the kings of Israel kept their court, till Amri built Samaria, (Calmet) about nine miles more to the north. (Brocard.) --- One. The two kings slain by Moses (Worthington) are not included. (Menochius)_... [ Continue Reading ]