Joshua 12

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Joshua 12:7-24

The names of the kings are given in the order of their actual encounter with Joshua. Those enumerated in Joshua 12:10-18 either belonged to the league of the southern Canaanites (Joshua 10:1 ff), the power of which was broken in the battle of Beth-horon, or were at any rate conquered in the campaign following that battle. Those mentioned in Joshua 12:19-24 were in like manner connected with the northern confederates (Joshua 11:1 ff), who were defeated at the Waters of Merom.Joshua 12:13-20The... read more

Joseph Benson

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

A.M. 2553. B.C. 1451. The conquests of Israel, under Moses, Joshua 12:1-6 ; under Joshua , vv7-24. read more

Joseph Benson

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

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Joshua 12:6

Joshua 12:6. Them did Moses and the children of Israel smite Fresh mercies must not drown the remembrance of former mercies: nor must the glory of the present instruments of good to the church, diminish the just honour of those that went before them. Joshua’s services were confessedly great. But let not those under Moses be forgotten. Both together proclaim God to be the Alpha and Omega of his people’s salvation. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Joshua 12:8

Joshua 12:8. In the wilderness and in the south country These are joined together because the wilderness was southerly, in the hottest and driest part of the land: but we are not to suppose that the wilderness was a country without people, but only such as was thinly inhabited, in comparison with other parts of the land: for we read of houses and towns in the wilderness, 1 Kings 11:34; 1 Kings 9:18. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Joshua 12:23

Joshua 12:23. The king of Gilgal This Gilgal is not the place where Joshua encamped when he came over Jordan; for there was no city there, nor any king of that country, but the king of Jericho. That place had also its name from the circumcision of the Israelites there, chap. Joshua 5:9. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Joshua 12:24

Joshua 12:24. All the kings, thirty and one It may seem strange to us that in so small a country there were so many kings; but in those ages kings were only petty princes, or lords of cities, which had a few villages depending on them. This appears by Joshua 12:9, where we read of the king of Beth-el; which was so small a place, that he and the king of Ai, joined together, had but twelve thousand subjects, Joshua 8:25. However, the conquering of so many cities and places, within so short a... 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

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