1 Chronicles 2:23; Deuteronomy 4:47; Deuteronomy 4:48; Joshua 12:2-5
The writer appends to the command of God Joshua 13:1-7 a statement that the other two tribes and a half had already had their inheritance marked...
Joshua 13. Parts of the Land as yet Unconquered. In heritance of the Two and a Half Tribes on the E. of Jordan. In Joshua 13:1 we meet with a sta...
And Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan unto Salcah; Border of the Geshurites - See on J...
Ver. 9-12. From Aroer, &c.— These four verses specify at large the territories on the east of Jordan already occupied by the fore-mentioned...
Ver. 11. And the border of the—Maachathites — The Maachathites bordered upon the Geshurites on the north of the land of Canaan, toward mount Her...
And Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan unto Salcah; Gilead - the southern region...
Territories of the Eastern Tribes 1-7. These vv. describe the land which, though still unconquered, is to be assigned to the 9½ tribes. It include...
CHAPTER XXI. JOSHUA'S OLD AGE- DIVISION FOR THE EASTERN TRIBES. Joshua Ch. 13, 14:1-5. "THE Lord said unto Joshua, Thou art old and stricken in...
The second half of the Book of Joshua deals with the settlement of the people in the promised land. Dean Stanley says: "In the Book of Joshua we have...
The portion of the Reubenites, the descendants of Israel's first-born, is here again mentioned. Moses had divided this before his death to this tribe...
And Gilead ,.... The land of Gilead, which was part of the kingdom of Og, half of which was given to Reuben, and the other half to Gad: and the bo...
And Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan unto Salcah; Ver. 11. And the border of the Ge...
The city that is in the midst of the river Some interpreters render this clause, The city in the midst of the valley; judging that, as Arnon was...
LAND REMAINING TO BE CONQUERED (vv. 1-7) Joshua became "old and advanced in years" (v. 1). In fact, he was not a young man when he led Israel ac...
7 Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance unto the nine tribes, and the half tribe of Manasseh, 8 With whom the Reubenites and th...
Maachathites; whose land God had given to the Israelites without Jordan, though they had not yet used the gift of God, nor taken possession of it,...
The Land Allocated to the Two and a Half Tribes Beyond the Jordan - Reuben, Gad and half of Manasseh - And Levi's Inheritance ( Joshua 13:8-14 )....
CRITICAL NOTES.— Joshua 13:9 . Medeba unto Dibon] The southern part of a table-land reaching from Rabbath Ammon to the river Arnon. Both places w...
Joshua 13:1 . Joshua was old; now more than a hundred years of age. Joshua 13:3 . Sihor, Sichor; that is, turbid, the waters being muddy. Th...
Thou art old and stricken in years. Joshua’s old age “The Lord said unto Joshua, Thou art old and stricken in years.” To many men and women thi...
EXPOSITION THE DIVISION OF THE TERRITORY .— Joshua 13:1 Now Joshua was old. This is usually regarded as the second part of th...
The Command to Distribute the Land
and Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites, Joshua 12:5 , and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan unto Salcah;
And Maacathites — Whose land God had given to the Israelites without Jordan, though they had not yet used the gift of God, nor taken possession of...
11 And Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan unto Salcah;