Joshua 13:25 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

All the cities of Gilead, i.e. all the cities of note and eminency; all cities properly so called, which it seems lay in that part of Gilead; and so this may well agree with Joshua 13:25, where half the country of Gilead is said to be given to the Manassites; but there is no mention of any cities there. Half the land of the children of Ammon; not of that which now was theirs, for that they were forbidden to meddle with, Deuteronomy 2:9, but of that which was anciently theirs, but taken from them by the Amorites, Numbers 21:26, from whom the Israelites took it, Judges 11:15. Unto Aroer, the border between them and Moab. Rabbah, the chief city of the Ammonites, 2 Samuel 11:1, 2 Samuel 12:26,27.

Joshua 13:25

25 And their coast was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, unto Aroer that is before Rabbah;