Joshua 12,Joshua 15

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Joshua 12

This chapter is a summary of Israel's conquests. I. Their conquests under Moses, on the other side Jordan (for we now suppose ourselves in Canaan) eastward, which we had the history of, Num. 21:24-35 And here the abridgment of that history, Josh. 12:1-6. II. Their conquests under Joshua, on this side Jordan, westward. 1. The country they reduced, Josh. 12:7, 8. 2. The kings they subdued, thirty-one in all, Josh. 12:9-24. And this comes in here, not only as a conclusion of the history of the... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Joshua 12:1-6

Joshua, or whoever else is the historian before he comes to sum up the new conquests Israel had made, in these verses receives their former conquests in Moses's time, under whom they became masters of the great and potent kingdoms of Sihon and Og. Note, Fresh mercies must not drown the remembrance of former mercies, nor must the glory of the present instruments of good to the church be suffered to eclipse and diminish the just honour of those who have gone before them, and who were the... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Joshua 12:7-24

We have here a breviate of Joshua's conquests. I. The limits of the country he conquered. It lay between Jordan on the east and the Mediterranean Sea on the west, and extended from Baal-gad near Lebanon in the north to Halak, which lay upon the country of Edom in the south, Josh. 12:7. The boundaries are more largely described, Num. 34:2-12 But what is here said is enough to show that God had been as good as his word, and had given them possession of all he had promised them by Moses, if they... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 12

INTRODUCTION TO JOSHUA 12 This chapter gives a short account of the conquests made by the Israelites, both in the times of Moses and of Joshua, and first of the kingdom of Sihon and Og on the other side Jordan, in the times of Moses, and which he gave to the two tribes of Reuben and Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh, and which are particularly described, Joshua 12:1 ; and then of the kings and the countries on this side Jordan whom Joshua conquered, Joshua 12:7 ; and the names of the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 12:1

Now these are the kings of the land which the children of Israel smote ,.... In the days of Moses, as Jarchi remarks, and as it clearly appears from what follows: and possessed, their land on the other side Jordan toward the rising of the sun ; on the east of the land of Canaan: from the river Arnon unto the mount Hermon, and all the plain on the east ; Arnon was the border of Moab between them and the Amorites, Numbers 21:13 ; and from hence to Hermon, a mountain adjoining to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 12:2

Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon ,.... Which he took from the Moabites, and made his capital city, Numbers 21:26 , and ruled from Aroer, which is upon the bank of the river of Arnon ; a city of Moab, which never fell into the hands of Sihon, and therefore he is said to rule from it but not over it: and from the middle of the river ; that is, the river Arnon, which being the boundary of the Moabites and Amorites, the king of the Amorites might be said to rule... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 12:3

And from the plain ,.... Or rather, "and the plain", the plains of Moab, which, before possessed by the Israelites, belonged to the kingdom of Sihon; and the plains of Jordan, which reached to the sea of Cinneroth on the east ; the same with the lake of Gennesaret, and sea of Tiberias, mentioned in the New Testament, Matthew 14:34 , and unto the sea of the plain ; where stood the cities of the plain, Sodom, Gomorrah, &c.; even the salt sea on the east ; the same with the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 12:4

And the coast of Og king of Bashan ,.... The country that he reigned over, who was another king of the Amorites, smitten by Israel in the times of Moses: which was of the remnant of the giants ; See Gill on Deuteronomy 3:11 , that dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei ; of which two places see Deuteronomy 1:4 ; it seems as if Og had a palace in each of those cities, and sometimes was at one and sometimes at another, as is usual with kings. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 12:5

And reigned in Mount Hermon ,.... That is, over all the people that inhabited that mount or dwelt under it, Joshua 11:17 , and adjacent to it, of which mountain; see Gill on Deuteronomy 3:8 and See Gill on Deuteronomy 3:9 , and in Salcah : which was a city belonging to the kingdom of Og, Deuteronomy 3:10 , and in all Bashan ; or Batanea, a country famous for pasturage, Micah 7:14 , and for fat cattle, Ezekiel 39:18 , and for oaks, Isaiah 2:13 , frequently mentioned in... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 12:6

Them did Moses the servant of the Lord, and the children of Israel, smite ,.... That is, the inhabitants of those kingdoms they smote with the edge of the sword, and took possession of them, the history of which see in Numbers 21:1 , and Moses the servant of the Lord gave it ; the whole dominion of the two kings before mentioned: for a possession unto the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh : of which grant, and the conditions of it, see Numbers 32:1 . read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Joshua 12

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Joshua 12:1-6

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Joshua 12:7-24

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 12

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 12:1

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 12:2

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 12:3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 12:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 12:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 12:6

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