JOSHUA CHAPTER 12 A catalogue of the kings, and their possessions, out of which they were driven by the Israelites; first in the time of Moses on the other side Jordan, JOSHUA 12:1, and afterwards by Joshua on this side of Jordan, JOSHUA 12:7; in all one and thirty kings, JOSHUA 12:24. On the east o... [ Continue Reading ]
FROM THE MIDDLE OF THE RIVER: it is not unusual, even amongst us, for a river to be divided between two lords, and for their territories or jurisdictions to meet in the middle of the river; and besides, here is a very particular reason for this expression, because the city Ar, which was no part of S... [ Continue Reading ]
TO THE SEA OF CHINNEROTH ON THE EAST; which words describe the situation not of the sea of Chinneroth, which was part of the western border of Sihon's dominion, but of the plain, which is here said to lie eastward from the sea of Chinneroth, and also eastward from the Salt Sea, as it here follows. A... [ Continue Reading ]
To wit, successively; sometimes at the one, sometimes at the other city; both being his royal mansions.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE GESHURITES, of which see DEUTERONOMY 3:14 JOSHUA 13:13 2 SAMUEL 13:37, 2 SAMUEL 15:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
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The wilderness: this word here and elsewhere in Scripture notes not a land wholly desert and uninhabited, but one thin of inhabitants, as 1 KINGS 2:34, 1 KINGS 9:18 MATTHEW 3:1,3.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHICH IS BESIDE BETH-EL: this is added to distinguish it from Ai of the Ammonites, of which JEREMIAH 49:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
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DOR, of which JOSHUA 11:2. GILGAL; not of that Gilgal where Joshua first lodged after his passage over Jordan; where it doth not appear that there was either king or city; but of another city of the same name, (as was frequent in those parts,) probably in Galilee towards the sea whither divers peopl... [ Continue Reading ]
Each being confined to a narrow compass, and being king only of one city, or small province belonging to it, which was by the wise and singular providence of God, that they might be more easily and successively conquered by the Israelites one after another, as they were.... [ Continue Reading ]