ヨシュア記 13:24-31 JC

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 13:28

This is the inheritance of the children of Gad. The cause of the difference between the Reubenites and the Gadites may perhaps be thus explained. While both inhabited a similar tract of country, a country from its open and pastoral character likely to develop a hardy and healthy race of men, the Reubenites were exposed to the seductions of the Moabitish worship of Chemosh, which, when combined with an ancestral temperament by no means prone to resist such influences (see Genesis 49:4 ),... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 13:29

The halftribe of Manasseh. The word used for "tribe" in the first and second half of this verse is not the same. Some German critics have derived an argument for the hypothesis that the historical and geographical portions of the book are not by the same hand, from the supposed fact that the former of these words is used almost exclusively in the first, or historical portion, and the latter in the second, or geographical portion, of the book. The word "almost" would be almost sufficient to... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 13:30

The towns of Jair. Literally, Havoth-Jair, as in Numbers 32:41 ; Deuteronomy 3:14 . The word חַיִּת is derived from חוה to live, and the word is compared by Gesenius to the names Eisleben and the like in Germany. So we use the phrase "five," as synonymous with "dwell." Why the term is confined to these particular cities is not known. Gesenius regards it as equivalent to "nomadic encampment." But the ruins of the giant cities of Bashan, recently rediscovered in our own time,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 13:31

The one half of the children of Machir. See this question fully discussed in note on Joshua 17:5 , Joshua 17:6 . read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 13:31

The border keep. "Machir was a 'man of war,' therefore he had Gilead and Bashan." These cities include the group which form such a striking stronghold in the northern part of the land beyond Jordan. Mr. Porter, in his 'Giant Cities of Bashan,' has described the surprising strength of the architecture of these cities—the failure of even three thousand years of change and wear to render the houses unfit for habitation; and has also described the strange formation of the district of Argob,... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Joshua 13:8-33

The writer appends to the command of God Joshua 13:1-7 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 boundaries of this territory as a whole are first set forth Joshua 13:8-14, and afterward the portions assigned within it to the two tribes and a half are severally described Joshua 13:15-33.Joshua 13:14See Deuteronomy 18:1-5 and notes.Joshua 13:15-24Inheritance of the tribe of Reuben. This... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Joshua 13:25

Joshua 13:25. All the cities of Gilead All the cities of eminence; all the cities properly so called, which lay in that part of Gilead; and thus what is here assured may well agree with Joshua 13:31, where half the country of Gilead is said to be given to the Manassites, for there is no mention of any cities being there. Half the land of the children of Ammon Not of that which was now theirs, for that the Israelites were forbidden to meddle with; but of that which was anciently theirs,... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Joshua 13:29

Joshua 13:29. Unto the half-tribe of Manasseh Not that they desired it, as Reuben and Gad did, (Numbers 32:1,) but partly as a recompense to Machir the Manassite, for his valiant acts against Og, and partly because the country was too large for the two tribes of Reuben and Gad. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Joshua 13:30

Joshua 13:30. All the towns of Jair Who, though of the tribe of Judah, by the father, (1 Chronicles 2:21-22,) yet is called the son of Manasseh, (Numbers 32:41,) because he married a daughter of Manasseh, and wholly associated himself with those valiant Manassites; and with their help took sixty cities or great towns, (Deuteronomy 3:4; Deuteronomy 3:14,) which thence were called the towns of Jair. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Joshua 13:31

Joshua 13:31. Children of Machir Whom before he called the children of Manasseh, he now calls the children of Machir, because Machir was the most eminent, and, as it may seem, the only surviving son of Manasseh, Numbers 26:29; 1 Chronicles 7:14-16. read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 13:28

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 13:29

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 13:30

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 13:31

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 13:31

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Joshua 13:8-33

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Joshua 13:25

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Joshua 13:29

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Joshua 13:30

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Joshua 13:31

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