여호수아 13:3-4 KRV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Joshua 13:1-6

Here, I. God puts Joshua in mind of his old age, Josh. 13:1. 1. It is said that Joshua was old and stricken in years, and he and Caleb were at this time the only old men among the thousands of Israel, none except them of all those who were numbered at Mount Sinai being now alive. He had been a man of war from his youth (Exod. 17:10); but now he yielded to the infirmities of age, with which it is in vain for the stoutest to think of contesting. It should seem Joshua had not the same strength... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 13:3

From Sihor, which is before Egypt ,.... Which Jarchi and Kimchi interpret of the river Nile, and so that river is called, Jeremiah 2:18 ; it seems to have this name from the waters of it being black and turbid; and hence it was called by the Greeks "Melas"; and by the Latins "Melo"; though it is thought, that not properly the river itself is here meant, which did not reach to the borders of Palestine, but a branch of it, a rivulet from it, for so a traveller F1 Jodocus a Gistella... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 13:4

From the south, all the land of the Canaanites ,.... That is, of those Canaanites who were particularly so called, in distinction from those of the other nations or tribes, and who dwelt in several parts of the land, some in the east and others in the west, see Joshua 11:3 ; and, as it seems here, some in the south: now on the side of the south, as Kimchi interprets it, all the land of the Canaanites was left, that is, remained unconquered and not possessed: and Mearah that is beside... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 13:3

From Sihor, which is before Egypt - Supposed by some to be the Pelusiac branch of the Nile, near to the Arabian Desert; called also the river of Egypt, Numbers 34:5 ; Jeremiah 2:18 . On this subject an intelligent friend favors me with the following opinion: - "The river Sihor is supposed by some to be the Nile, or a branch of it. Others think it the same as what is frequently called the river of Egypt, which lay before or towards the borders of Egypt; which arose out of the mountains of... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 13:4

The land of the Canaanites - This lay on the south of the country of the Philistines, towards the sea-coast. Mearah - Supposed to be the city Maratha, on the Mediterranean Sea. - Calmet. Or the river Majora, which falls into the Mediterranean Sea, between Sidon and Berytus. See Pliny, Hist. Nat. lib. v., c. 20. Aphek - See on Joshua 12:18 ; (note). To the borders of the Amorites - Though the term Amorite is sometimes used to designate the inhabitants in general of the land of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 13:2-7

The land allotted, though not yet secured. "There remaineth yet very much land to be possessed." "Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance"—form a somewhat strange pair of precepts. It seems as if Joshua was dividing what he had not got; and as if Israel were casting lots rather for perils than property. It is not quite so extreme as this. The point in the conquest was reached when nowhere was there a resistance needing a nation in arms to quell it. The several tribes were each... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 13:3

From Sihor. This word, which has the article in Hebrew, is literally the black river. This has been thought to be the Nile, known to both Greeks and Latins by that title. The Greeks called it μέλας . So Virgil says of it, " AE gyptum nigra foecundat arena." The Vulgate has "a fluvio turbido qui irrigat AE gyptum." The LXX . translates by ἀοίκητος . The phrase which is "before" ( עַל־פְנֵי ) Egypt seems to exclude the idea of the Nile, since the Nile flowed through the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 13:4

From the south. The LXX . and the best modern commentators connect these words with what precedes. This gives a better sense than joining it to what follows. For the south was not "all the land of the Canaanites," but a large part of it belonged, as we have just seen, to a tribe not of Canaanitish origin, while the land of the Canaanites (see note on Joshua 3:10 ) extended far to the northward. Therefore we must understand the words "all the land of the Canaanites" to begin a fresh... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Joshua 13:3

Sihor is derived from a root signifying “to be black,” and is suitable enough as an appellative of the Nile Isaiah 23:3. Here it most probably stands for “the river of Egypt” (Numbers 34:3 note), the modern “Wady el Arish”.Ekron (“Akir”) lay on the northern boundary of Judah Joshua 15:11, and was actually conquered by the men of that tribe Judges 1:18, though assigned in the allotment of the land to Dan Joshua 19:43. It seems to have fallen again into the hands of the Philistines in the days of... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Joshua 13:4

Read “on the south,” and connect the words with the verse preceding. They indicate the southern limit of the still unconquered territory in this neighborhood, as Joshua 13:3 gives the northern one.Mearah - The “cave” (see the margin) has been referred to “Mugar Jczzin” (“cave of Jezzin”), between Tyre and Sidon, or to a district characterized by deep cave-like ravines near Sidon and Dan-Laish. read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Joshua 13:1-6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 13:3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 13:4

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 13:3

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 13:4

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 13:2-7

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 13:3

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 13:4

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Joshua 13:3

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Joshua 13:4

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