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Hawker's Poor man's commentary

Joshua 13:23-33

The sacred historian is particular to enumerate these things concerning the portion of the two tribes and half; because it is a confirmation of what Moses had before done. Joshua only confirms the appointment. Some of those places were in after ages made more memorable. Jazer was near the borders of the half tribe of Manasseh.

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See also Joshua 13:23-33 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Joshua 13:23. _THE CITIES AND THE VILLAGES_] By _villages_, חצרים chatserim, it is likely that _moveable villages_ or _tents_ are meant, such as are in use among the Bedouin Arabs; places where...

  • 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 Possession of the Tribe of Reuben 15. _the tribe of the children of Reuben_ The historian now gives us, on the faith of the ancient registers, the several boundaries of the tribes east of the Jor...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _was Jordan_ i.e. "the boundary of the children of Reuben was the Jordan and adjoining land." Comp. Numbers 34:6; Deuteronomy 3:16-17. _the villages thereof = "farm premises_," not enclosed, like a ci...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _The Territory of Reuben Joshua 13:15-23_ 15 And Moses gave unto the tribe of the children of Reuben inheritance according to their families. 16 And their coast was from Aroer, that is on the bank of...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND THE BORDER OF THE CHILDREN OF REUBEN WAS JORDAN, AND THE BORDER THEREOF. THIS WAS THE INHERITANCE OF THE CHILDREN OF REUBEN AFTER THEIR FAMILIES, THE CITIES AND THE VILLAGES THEREOF._ And the bo...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    13:23 hamlets. (b-32) Enclosures, farm-houses. so Exodus 8:13 and elsewhere....

  • 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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    DESCRIPTION OF THE TERRITORY DISTRIBUTED BY MOSES ON THE EAST OF JORDAN (Joshua 13:15). (15) REUBEN. — See also Numbers 32:33 and Deuteronomy 3:16, &c....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יְהִ֗י גְּבוּל֙ בְּנֵ֣י רְאוּבֵ֔ן הַ יַּרְ

  • 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...

  • 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

    AND THE BORDER OF THE CHILDREN OF REUBEN WAS JORDAN, AND THE BORDER [THEREOF],.... As their border eastward was Aroer on the river Arnon, so their border westward was the river Jordan: THIS [WAS] THE...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And the border of the children of Reuben was Jordan, and the border [thereof]. This [was] the inheritance of the children of Reuben after their families, the cities and the villages thereof. Ver. 23....

  • 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

    THE TERRITORY OF THE TWO AND ONE HALF TRIBES...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And the border, the boundary, OF THE CHILDREN OF REUBEN WAS JORDAN AND THE BORDER THEREOF, to the territory of the Jordan in the west, for its main part was east of the Dead Sea. T HIS WAS THE INHERIT...

  • 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

    And the border thereof, i.e. those cities or places which bordered upon Jordan. Compare NUMBERS 34:6....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Joshua 13:23 border H1366 children H1121 Reuben H7205 bank H1366 Jordan H3383 inheritance H5159 children H1121 Reuben H7

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘ And the border of the children of Reuben was Jordan, and its border. This was the inheritance of the children of Reuben according to their families, its cities and villages.' Literally ‘the border w...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE PORTION OF REUBEN (JOSHUA 13:15). Joshua 13:15 ‘ And Moses gave to the tribe of Reuben according to their families.' The division of the land took account of the sizes of the tribes (Numbers 26...

  • 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

    Joshua 13:23...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The border thereof — That is, those cities or places which bordered upon Jordan....

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