Joshua 13:22 NIV

Geneva Study Bible - Joshua 13:22

13:22 {f} Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the children of Israel slay with the sword among them that were slain by them.(f) So that both they who obeyed wicked counsel and the wicked counsellor perished by the just judgment of God. read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 13:1-33

AMSON'S BIRTH PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED (vv. 1-25) After this, because of Israel's further disobedience, the Lord brought them under bondage to the Philistines for forty long years (v. 1). In this case we are not told that Israel was broken enough to cry to God for deliverance. It seems as time went on, Israel became less and less sensitive to the seriousness of their evil condition. But God nevertheless had His eye on His people. This time God chose to prepare a deliverer from the tribe of Dan,... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Joshua 13:1-33

DIVISION OF THE LAND Seven chapters make a long lesson from one point of view but not from another, as the subject matter will not require the same attention as in other cases. It is about the division of the land among the tribes, and we will touch on the principal points by chapters. Joshua 13:0 Although the warfare of extermination had been carried on for some time, some think seven years, yet it was not entirely completed (Joshua 13:1 ). The Lord therefore stirs Joshua to portion out... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Joshua 13:1-33

A Recorded Life Joshua 12:0 , Joshua 13:0 THESE two chapters contain a good deal of hard reading. They are studded with unfamiliar and difficult words and names, so that reading them is like reading the writing upon gravestones in a foreign land. Still, there is much for our instruction here. For example, we are called to behold how good a thing it is to keep a detailed record of life. These chapters are in a certain sense diaries or journals. The men of the ancient time wrote down what they... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Joshua 13:22

I detain the Reader at this verse, just for him to remark with me, the sure end of such men. I refer back to the history of Balaam in the Commentary, see Numbers 22:23-24 , for a more particular relation of this very awful character: as also for the same record of his death: Numbers 31:8 . read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Joshua 13:22

Slain. Septuagint, "they slew Balaam....with the sword in the moment," Numbers xxii. 5., and xxxi. 8. (Haydock) read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 13:7-33

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. Wherever our habitation is placed, and in whatever honest way our portion is assigned, we should consider them as allotted of God; we should be thankful for, and use them as such, while every prudent method should be used to prevent disputes about property, both at present and in future. Joshua must... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Joshua 13:15-33

The Territory of the two and one Half Tribes v. 15. And Moses gave unto the tribe of the children of Reuben inheritance according to their families, Numbers 32. v. 16. And their coast, their boundary, was from Aroer, that is on the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the river, Ar in the valley of the Arnon, and all the plain by Medeba, east of the Dead Sea; v. 17. Heshbon, the former capital of Sihon, and all her cities that are in the plain; Dibon, about four... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Joshua 13:1-33

PART SECONDThe Division of the Land of CanaanJoshua 13-24____________SECTION FIRSTGod’s Command to Joshua to distribute the Land in West Palestine. Retrospective Glance at the Territory already assigned to the Two and a Half Tribes East of the Jordan. Beginning of the Division. Caleb’s PortionJoshua 13:14____________1. God’s Command to Joshua to distribute the LandJoshua 13:1-71Now [And] Joshua was old and stricken in years [far gone in years; Fay: come into the days; De Wette: come into the... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Joshua 13:1-33

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 Book of the Conquest of Canaan.' Ten chapters of that Book are devoted to a description of the country in which not only are its general features and boundaries laid down, but the names and situations of its towns and villages enumerated with the precision of geographical terms which encourages, and... read more