約書亞記 12:1-2 CUNPTS

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Joshua 12:1-2

Joshua 12:1-2. These are the kings of the land This summary account of Israel’s conquests comes in here not only as a conclusion of the history of the wars of Canaan, that we might at one view see what they had gotten; but as a preface to the history of the dividing of Canaan, that all those territories might be placed together before the reader’s view, which they were now to make the distribution of. All the plain on the east That is, on the east of Jordan, called the plain, Deuteronomy... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Joshua 12:1-24

Summary of Israel’s conquests (11:16-12:24)Now that Israel controlled all the territory that was to become its homeland, the writer summarizes the entire conquest. First he summarizes Joshua’s conquest of all the area west of Jordan (i.e. Canaan itself), where nine and a half tribes were to receive their inheritance (16-23). Then he summarizes the former conquest in the time of Moses, when Israel gained control of the territory east of Jordan, where two and a half tribes had already been... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Joshua 12:1

children = sons. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Joshua 12:2

Sihon. Compare Numbers 21:23 , Numbers 21:24 .Deuteronomy 3:6 read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Joshua 12:1

With this chapter the first half of the Book of Joshua is completed, and appropriately enough, this first section is concluded with a broad summary of the Conquest of Canaan. This conquest required a long war of at least seven years duration, and the Book of Joshua does not present any thorough history of that war, but rather confines its report to those events of particular bearing upon Israel's relation to God, and to His redemptive purpose for mankind. This first half of the book deals... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Joshua 12:1

Ver. 1. Now these are the kings, &c.— Having concluded the relation of the wars of Joshua, the sacred historian, now about to enter into a detail of the division made of the conquered country among the tribes, lays in some measure before the reader a map of that country, beginning with those places which the Israelites took under the conduct of Moses. The country extended from the river Arnon on the south, to mount Hermon on the north, and included all the plain, i.e. all the plains of... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Joshua 12:1

1. Now these are the kings of the land, which the children of Israel smote, and possessed their land on the other side Jordan—This chapter contains a recapitulation of the conquests made in the promised land, with the additional mention of some places not formerly noted in the sacred history. The river Arnon on the south and mount Hermon on the north were the respective boundaries of the land acquired by the Israelites beyond Jordan (see Numbers 21:21-24; Deuteronomy 2:36; Deuteronomy 3:3-16... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Joshua 12:1-6

The slaughter of the eastern kings 12:1-6Sihon and Og were the first Canaanite kings the Israelites defeated. read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 12:1-24

A Review of the Victories of Moses and JoshuaThis chapter concludes the whole section of the book which deals with the conquest of Canaan. The following chapters narrate the partition of the conquered and some unconquered land. The original account of these conquests is to be found in Numbers 21:21-35, and of the assignment to the 2½ tribes in Numbers 3:2. A fuller description of the territory is given in chapter Numbers 13:1-33;where see notes.1-6. Moses’ conquests E. of Jordan. Kingdoms of... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Joshua 12:1-24

CHAPTER XX.THE BATTLE OF MEROM.Joshua Chs. 11, 12. THERE is some appearance of confusion in the terms in which the great confederacy of native princes against Israel is brought in. In the beginning of the ninth chapter, a combination that embraced the whole country, north and south, east and west, is described as gathered together to fight with Joshua and with Israel. Nothing more is said till after the treaty with the Gibeonites, when five of these confederate kings residing in the south not... read more