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John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

INTRODUCTION TO Joshua 12 This chapter gives a short account of the conquests made by the Israelites, both in the times of Moses and of Joshua, and first of the kingdom of Sihon and Og on the other side Jordan, in the times of Moses, and which he gave to the two tribes of Reuben and Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh, and which are particularly described, Joshua 12:1; and then of the kings and...

John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

And reigned in Mount Hermon,.... That is, over all the people that inhabited that mount or dwelt under it, Joshua 11:17, and adjacent to it, of which mountain, [See comments on Deuteronomy 3:8] and [See comments on Deuteronomy 3:9]; and in Salcah: which was a city belonging to the kingdom of Og, Deuteronomy 3:10; and in all Bashan; or Batanea, a country famous for pasturage, Micah 7:14, and for...

Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary

Matthew Henry

This chapter is a summary of Israel's conquests. I. Their conquests under Moses, on the other side Jordan (for we now suppose ourselves in Canaan) eastward, which we had the history of, Num. xxi. 24, &c. And here the abridgment of that history, ver. 1-6. II. Their conquests under Joshua, on this side Jordan, westward. 1. The country they reduced, ver. 7, 8. 2. The kings they subdued, thirty-one...