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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Joshua 13:9

Medeba unto Dibon — Two cities anciently belonging to the Moabites, and taken from them by the Amorites, Numbers 21:30, and from them by the Israelites; and after the Israelites were gone into captivity, recovered by the first possessors, the Moabites.

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See also Joshua 13:9 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Joshua 13:9. _FROM AROER_] Joshua 12:2....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    The writer appends to the command of God Joshua 13:1 a statement that the other two tribes and a half had already had their inheritance marked out for them by Moses in the land east of Jordan. The bou...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    1. INSTRUCTION GIVEN: THE TWO AND ONE-HALF TRIBES CHAPTER 13 _ 1. Jehovah speaks to Joshua (Joshua 13:1)_ 2. Inheritance of the two and one-half tribes (Joshua 13:8) About seven years had gone by s...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JOSHUA 13. PARTS OF THE LAND AS YET UNCONQUERED. IN HERITANCE OF THE TWO AND A HALF TRIBES ON THE E. OF JORDAN. In Joshua 13:1 we meet with a statement which causes surprise. The whole land has been s...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The Territory of the Two Tribes and a Half East of the Jordan. Its Boundaries 8. _With whom_ i.e. with Manasseh. It alludes to the other half of that tribe. _the Reubenites and the Gadites_ These st...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _and all the plain of Medeba_ Instead of "half Gilead," as in ch. Joshua 12:2, we have here "all the plain (Mishor = "table-land" or "downs") of Medeba unto Dibon," "the wijld feeldis of Medeba," Wycl...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _VER._ 9-12. _FROM AROER,_ &C.— These four verses specify at large the territories on the east of Jordan already occupied by the fore-mentioned two tribes and a half. See Numbers 21:24; Numbers 21:35;...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _A Description of the Land East of Jordan Joshua 13:7-14_ 7 Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance unto the nine tribes, and the half tribe of Manasseh, 8 With whom the Reubenites and the G...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _FROM AROER, THAT IS UPON THE BANK OF THE RIVER ARNON, AND THE CITY THAT IS IN THE MIDST OF THE RIVER, AND ALL THE PLAIN OF MEDEBA UNTO DIBON;_ From Aroer, that is upon the bank of the river Arnon, a...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    TERRITORIES OF THE EASTERN TRIBES 1-7. These vv. describe the land which, though still unconquered, is to be assigned to the 9½ tribes. It includes the W. and N. borders of Palestine. Wellhausen ('His...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    COME IN, AND RECEIVE GOD’S PROMISES! JOSHUA _BRIAN ROWLANDS_ Maps to help you to study this book are on the Internet at www.easyenglish.info. CHAPTER 13 3. THE EXTENT OF THE *BLESSING The lan...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    מֵ עֲרֹועֵ֡ר אֲשֶׁר֩ עַל ־שְׂפַת ־נַ֨חַל אַרְ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XXI. JOSHUA'S OLD AGE- DIVISION FOR THE EASTERN TRIBES. Joshua Ch. 13, 14:1-5. "THE Lord said unto Joshua, Thou art old and stricken in years." To many men and women this would not be a wel...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The second half of the Book of Joshua deals with the settlement of the people in the promised land. Dean Stanley says: "In the Book of Joshua we have what may without offense be termed The Domesday Bo...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    Chapter 13 begins a description of the division of the land. Verses 2-3 name the unconquered areas in the south, while those in the north are described in 4-6. If Israel had have been obedient and fai...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Aroer, and part of the town of Dibon, belonged to Gad, Numbers xxxii. 34._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The portion of the Reubenites, the descendants of Israel's first-born, is here again mentioned. Moses had divided this before his death to this tribe. Deuteronomy 3:12. And here Joshua confirms that g...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    In the wars of Jehovah it was not always a question of hostile power. Indeed this is not the most serious evil which the people of God have to encounter in this world. The very same principle which wa...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 12 THROUGH 24. Chapter 12 is only a summary of their conquests. The Holy Ghost not only gives us the victory over our enemies, but makes us understand and kno...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    FROM AROER, THAT [IS] ON THE BANK OF THE RIVER ARNON,.... A city belonging to Moab, from whence the description begins, the river Arnon, on which it was situated, being the border between Moab and the...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    From Aroer, that [is] upon the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that [is] in the midst of the river, and all the plain of Medeba unto Dibon; Ver. 9. _From Aroer, that is upon the bank._] Besides...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _The city that is in the midst of the river_ Some interpreters render this clause, _The city in the midst of the valley;_ judging that, as Arnon was but a small brook, it could hardly have a city, or...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 The bounds of the land not yet conquered. 8 The inheritance of the two Tribes and halfe. 14.33 The Lord and his sacrifices, are the inheritance of Leui. 15 The bounds of the inheritance of Reuben....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    from Aroer, that is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the river, of the valley of the Arnon, Joshua 12:2, AND ALL THE PLAIN OF MEDEBA UNTO DIBON, the plateau east...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE COMMAND TO DISTRIBUTE THE LAND...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    LAND REMAINING TO BE CONQUERED (vv. 1-7) Joshua became "old and advanced in years" (v. 1). In fact, he was not a young man when he led Israel across the Jordan, at least in his sixties. If, as we ri...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    7-33 The land must be divided among the tribes. It is the will of God that every man should know his own, and not take that which is another's. The world must be governed, not by force, but right. Wh...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THE CITY THAT IS IN THE MIDST OF THE RIVER; of which SEE POOLE ON "DEUTERONOMY 3:16", and SEE POOLE ON "JOSHUA 12:2". Either this is the same city now mentioned, even Aroer, which is said to have been...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Joshua 13:9 Aroer H6177 bank H8193 River H5158 Arnon H769 town H5892 midst H8432 ravine H5158 plain H4334 Medeba...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE LAND ALLOCATED TO THE TWO AND A HALF TRIBES BEYOND THE JORDAN - REUBEN, GAD AND HALF OF MANASSEH - AND LEVI'S INHERITANCE (JOSHUA 13:8). Joshua 13:8 ‘ With him the Reubenites and the Gadites rec...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Joshua instructed concerning the division of the land. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Joshua. CONCLUSION: All people, and especially old people, should set themselves to do that quickly which mus...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Joshua 13:1. _Joshua was old;_ now more than a hundred years of age. Joshua 13:3. _Sihor, Sichor;_ that is, _turbid,_ the waters being muddy. The map will show the geographical situation of most of th...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Thou art old and stricken in years._ JOSHUA’S OLD AGE “The Lord said unto Joshua, Thou art old and stricken in years.” To many men and women this would not be a welcome announcement. They do not lik...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOSHUA 13:1 Dividing the Land. In this third major section the Lord instructs Joshua in dividing and assigning the land. It is packed with geographical details. ⇐...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— Joshua 13:9. Medeba unto Dibon] The southern part of a table-land reaching from Rabbath Ammon to the river Arnon. Both places were given to the Reubenites (Joshua 13:16), but were aft...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THE DIVISION OF THE TERRITORY.— JOSHUA 13:1 NOW JOSHUA WAS OLD. This is usually regarded as the second part of the Book of Joshua; the first being devoted to the history of the conquest o...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    In chapter thirteen, Now Joshua was old and stricken in years; [It means that he was beginning to be a little feeble. The idea of "stricken in years" refers to more or less the feebleness that oftent...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Deuteronomy 3:12; Deuteronomy 3:16; Isaiah 15:2; Jeremiah 48:18;...

  • When Critics Ask: A Popular Handbook on Bible Difficulties, Norman L. Geisler and Thomas Howe, 1960

    What was the correct eastern boundary of the Promised Land? PROBLEM: God promised Abraham, “To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great … River Euphrates” (Genesis...

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