Sons of Israel — This is added emphatically, because they were treated as if they had been the immediate sons of Jacob. Not reckoned — This is the second reason, which sheweth both why Reuben's genealogy was not first mentioned; and if another tribe was to be ranked before it, why that was Judah, an... [ Continue Reading ]
Judah — Not the person, but the tribe of Judah. Prevailed — Excelled the other tribes, especially in the following privilege.... [ Continue Reading ]
Euphrates — From Jordan and the wilderness beyond it unto Euphrates. Or, of the wilderness, which lies towards or reacheth to the river Euphrates, namely, the great wilderness of Kedemoth, Deuteronomy 2:26, which was extended far and wide towards Euphrates: for that was the eastern border of Reuben'... [ Continue Reading ]
They made war — Thus God did for his people, as he promised them. He cast out the enemy from before them by little and little, and gave them their land as they had occasion for it.... [ Continue Reading ]
These — These seven last named.... [ Continue Reading ]
Helped — By God, 1 Chronicles 5:22, who gave them extraordinary courage and success.... [ Continue Reading ]
Was of God — Undertaken in his fear, and carried on in a dependence on him. Then we may expect to prosper in any enterprize, and then only, when we take God along with us.... [ Continue Reading ]