Joshua 12:7-24

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 12:7

And these are the kings of the country ,.... After particularly named, Joshua 12:9 , which Joshua and the children of Israel smote on this side Jordan on the west ; that is, on the west of Jordan: from Baalgad, in the valley of Lebanon, even unto the mount Halak , that goeth up to Seir ; of which see Joshua 11:17 , which Joshua gave unto the tribes of Israel for a possession , according to their divisions ; as after related in this book. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 12:8

In the mountains, and in the valleys, and in the plains, and in the springs, and in the wilderness, and in the south country ,.... Which is a description of the whole land of Canaan; some parts of which were hills and mountains, others vales and champaign fields; others were dry and barren, and others well watered; some part of it lay to the north, as towards Lebanon, and others to the south, towards Seir: the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 12:9

The king of Jericho, one ,.... Who was first taken, and so named first, Joshua 6:21 , the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one ; who was next taken and though Bethel was so near Ai, it had a king of its own, after mentioned, see Joshua 7:1 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 12:10

The king of Jerusalem, one ,.... Whose name was Adonizedek, and was one of the five kings taken and hanged, Joshua 10:1 , the king of Hebron, one ; another of the five kings, whose name was Hoham, Joshua 10:3 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 12:11

The king of Jarmuth, one ,.... Whose name was Piram, a third of the five kings before observed, Joshua 10:3 , the king of Lachish, one ; another of them, whose name was Japhia, Joshua 10:3 . read more

John Gill

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

The king of Eglon, one ,.... The last of the five kings, and his name was Debir, Joshua 10:3 , the king of Gezer, one ; who came up to help Lachish, and his name was Horam, Joshua 10:33 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 12:13

The king of Debir, one ,.... The same with Kirjathsepher, of which place; see Gill on Joshua 10:38 , the king of Geder, one : Jerom F8 De loc. Heb. fol. 92. A. B. seems to confound this with the tower of Eder, beyond which Jacob pitched his tent, Genesis 35:21 ; and he speaks of a Gaddera in the tribe of Judah, in his time a village belonging to the country about Aelia or Jerusalem, and of Gahedur in the tribe of Judah, a large village, ten miles from Diospolis or Lydda, as you... read more

John Gill

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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 12:15

The king of Libnah, one ,.... Taken at the same time as the kings of Makkedah, Debir, and of other places were, Joshua 10:29 , the king of Adullam, one ; a city in the tribe of Judah, Joshua 15:35 ; Jerom says F11 De loc. Heb. fol. 88. F. there was a village in his time, not a small one, called by this name, ten miles to the east of Eleutheropolis: near to this place was a cave where David hid himself when he fled from Saul, 1 Samuel 22:1 ; See Gill on Micah 1:15 . read more

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