John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 12:14
The king of Hormah, one ,.... Which was formerly called Zephath, Judges 1:17 ; see Joshua 15:3 , the king of Arad, one ; perhaps the same with Arath, which, Jerom F9 De Loc. Heb. fol. 92. L. says, is the border of the land of Judah, and is twenty miles distant from Hebron to the south; see Numbers 21:1 . read more
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