“ The king of Tirzah, one: all the kings thirty and one. ”
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...
Joshua 12. List of the Conquered Kings. The whole of this chapter, which is a detailed expansion of Joshua 11:16 , So Joshua took all that land, is a late composition of the Deuteronomic school; o...
The king of Tirzah, one: all the kings thirty and one. King of Tirzah - This city appears to have been for a long time the capital of the kingdom of Israel, and the residence of its kings. See 1 Kin...
Ver. 24. All the kings thirty and one — The LXX reckon and specify but twenty-nine, and of them too they disfigure the names. We must not be surprised at seeing so many kings in so small a count...
A Review of the Victories of Moses and Joshua This chapter concludes the whole section of the book which deals with the conquest of Canaan. The following Chapter s narrate the partition of the con...
CHAPTER XX. THE BATTLE OF MEROM. Joshua Chs. 11, 12. THERE is some appearance of confusion in the terms in which the great confederacy of native princes against Israel is brought in. In the begi...
This chapter contains no new matter. It is rather a detailed summary of the extent of the conquest. First the victories under Moses (verses Jos 12:1-6) and then those under Joshua (verses Jos 12:7-24...
I bring all these verses together into one view, from the same reason as I did the former, because they all relate to one and the same subject, the splendid victories of Joshua. And I only detain the...
The king of Tirzah, one ,.... To what tribe this place fell is nowhere said: Adrichomius u places it in the tribe of Manasseh; and so does Bunting w, who says of it, that it was a fair and beautiful...
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 vil...
KINGS CONQUERED BY MOSES (vs.1-6) A list is given now of those kings defeated by Israel before they crossed the Jordan, while Moses was still living. We have read of them in Deuteronomy, and shal...
7 And these are the kings of the country which Joshua and the children of Israel smote on this side Jordan on the west, from Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon even unto the mount Halak, tha...
Each being confined to a narrow compass, and being king only of one city, or small province belonging to it, which was by the wise and singular providence of God, that they might be more easily and s...
‘ The king of Kedesh, one, the king of Yokneam in Carmel, one, the king of Dor, in the height of Dor, one, the king of Goiim in Gilgal, one, the king of Tirzah, one. All the kings thirty and one.'...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Joshua 12:7 . Baal gad.… Halak] Cf. on chap. Joshua 11:17 . Joshua 12:8 . Mountains , etc.] Cf. on Chapter s Joshua 9:1 ; Joshua 10:40 . Geographical notes on most of the...
This chapter contains the Hebrew chart of honour, and the faithfulness of God in fulfilling all his promises. Joshua 12:1 . Arnon, the river which drained the vales of Moab. See the Map. Joshua...
These axe the kings of the land, which the children of Israel smote. The goodness and severity of God This chapter is a short summary of the work that has been done. In this resume of the con...
EXPOSITION THE EXTENT OF JOSHUA 'S CONQUESTS . Joshua 12:1 Now these are the kings. The historian now enters upon a complete description of the whole territory which had, up to t...
The Conquered Kings West of Jordan
1 Kings 16:23 ; 2 Kings 15:14
Thirty one — Each being king only of one city or small province belonging to it, which was by the wise and singular providence of God, that they might be more easily conquered. But what a fruitful...