Joshua 12:1-24 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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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 12:3. Chinneroth, called Genesareth in the gospels, near to which Joshua fought his great and decisive battle, as in the preseding chapter.

Joshua 12:5. The Geshurites; called in the Septuagint “Gergesenes,” and thought to be the people mentioned in Matthew 8:28.

Joshua 12:7. The valley of Lebanon; in the north, to mount Halak on the borders of Edom; in the south it included a space of about two hundred miles, which was occupied by those allied kings.

Joshua 12:15. Adullam, where was a cave that extended three miles under the hill.

Joshua 12:20. Shimron-meron was the ancient name of Samaria.

Joshua 12:23. The king of the nations of Gilgal. This is not the Gilgal where Joshua circumcised the Israelites: hence the LXX read, “King of Gei of Galilee,” meaning, no doubt, the Galilee so often mentioned in the gospels. The LXX mention but twenty nine kings, and write their names so differently from the Hebrew, as to embarrass criticism. The fact is, that the ancient as well as the modern nations often had different names for the same place, and each nation followed its own orthography.

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Joshua 12:1-24

1 Now these are the kings of the land, which the children of Israel smote, and possessed their land on the other side Jordan toward the rising of the sun, from the river Arnon unto mount Hermon, and all the plain on the east:

2 Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and from the middle of the river, and from half Gilead, even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;

3 And from the plain to the sea of Chinneroth on the east, and unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea on the east, the way to Bethjeshimoth; and from the south,a under Ashdothpisgah:

4 And the coast of Og king of Bashan, which was of the remnant of the giants, that dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,

5 And reigned in mount Hermon, and in Salcah, and in all Bashan, unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.

6 Them did Moses the servant of the LORD and the children of Israel smite: and Moses the servant of the LORD gave it for a possession unto the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh.

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 Baalgad in the valley of Lebanon even unto the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir; which Joshua gave unto the tribes of Israel for a possession according to their divisions;

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; the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites:

9 The king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one;

10 The king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one;

11 The king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one;

12 The king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one;

13 The king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one;

14 The king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one;

15 The king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;

16 The king of Makkedah, one; the king of Bethel, one;

17 The king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one;

18 The king of Aphek, one; the king of Lasharon,b one;

19 The king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one;

20 The king of Shimronmeron, one; the king of Achshaph, one;

21 The king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one;

22 The king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam of Carmel, one;

23 The king of Dor in the coast of Dor, one; the king of the nations of Gilgal, one;

24 The king of Tirzah, one: all the kings thirty and one.