Skip to Content
Commentary Library

Commentaries on Joshua 12:7

Read verse in KJV Bible Reader

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 these [are] the kings of the country,.... After particularly named, Joshua 12:9: which Joshua and the children of Israel smote on this side Jordan on the west; that is, on the west of Jordan: from Baalgad, in the valley of Lebanon, even unto the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir; of which see Joshua 11:17; which Joshua gave unto the tribes of Israel [for] a possession, according to their...

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...