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…

Now these are the kings of the land which the children of Israel smote In the days of Moses, as Jarchi remarks, and as it clearly appears from what follows: and possessed, their land on the other side Jordan toward the rising of the sun; on the east of the land of Canaan: from the river Arnon unto…

Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon Which he took from the Moabites, and made his capital city, ; and ruled from Aroer, which is upon the bank of the river of Arnon; a city of Moab, which never fell into the hands of Sihon, and therefore he is said to rule from it but not over it: and…

And from the plain Or rather, “and the plain”, the plains of Moab, which, before possessed by the Israelites, belonged to the kingdom of Sihon; and the plains of Jordan, which reached to the sea of Cinneroth on the east; the same with the lake of Gennesaret, and sea of Tiberias, mentioned in the…

And the coast of Og king of Bashan The country that he reigned over, who was another king of the Amorites, smitten by Israel in the times of Moses: which was of the remnant of the giants; (See Gill on Deut.

And reigned in Mount Hermon That is, over all the people that inhabited that mount or dwelt under it, , and adjacent to it, of which mountain, (See Gill on Deut. 3:8) and (See Gill on Deut.

Them did Moses the servant of the Lord, and the children of Israel, smite That is, the inhabitants of those kingdoms they smote with the edge of the sword, and took possession of them, the history of which see in (Num. 21:1–3, Num.

And these are the kings of the country After particularly named, : 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 ; which Joshua…

In the mountains, and in the valleys, and in the plains, and in the springs, and in the wilderness, and in the south country Which is a description of the whole land of Canaan; some parts of which were hills and mountains, others vales and champaign fields; others were dry and barren, and others…

The king of Jericho, one Who was first taken, and so named first, ; the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one; who was next taken and though Bethel was so near Ai, it had a king of its own, after mentioned, see (Josh. 7:1–8, Josh. 7:29) .

The king of Jerusalem, one Whose name was Adonizedek, and was one of the five kings taken and hanged, (Josh. 10:1, Josh. 10:26) ; the king of Hebron, one; another of the five kings, whose name was Hoham, .

The king of Jarmuth, one Whose name was Piram, a third of the five kings before observed, ; the king of Lachish, one; another of them, whose name was Japhia, .

The king of Eglon, one The last of the five kings, and his name was Debir, ; the king of Gezer, one; who came up to help Lachish, and his name was Horam, .

The king of Debir, one The same with Kirjathsepher, of which place, (See Gill on Josh. 10:38); the king of Geder, one: Jerom [[7]] seems to confound this with the tower of Eder, beyond which Jacob pitched his tent, ; and he speaks of a Gaddera in the tribe of Judah, in his time a village belonging…

The king of Hormah, one Which was formerly called Zephath, ; see ; the king of Arad, one; perhaps the same with Arath, which, Jerom [[8]] says, is the border of the land of Judah, and is twenty miles distant from Hebron to the south; see . 9: De Loc. Heb. fol. 92. L.

The king of Libnah, one Taken at the same time as the kings of Makkedah, Debir, and of other places were, (Josh. 10:29, Josh. 10:30) ; the king of Adullam, one; a city in the tribe of Judah, ; Jerom says [[9]] there was a village in his time, not a small one, called by this name, ten miles to the…

The king of Makkedah, one In a cave near to which five kings hid themselves, and were taken out and hanged, and the city afterwards was taken by Joshua, ; which fell to the lot of the tribe of Judah, ; the king of Bethel, one; a city near to Ai, about a mile from it, and yet had a king over it: it…

The king of Tappuah, one Which Jerom calls [[10]] Thaffu; it signifies an apple, and perhaps had its name from plenty of that fruit that grew there: a city of this name fell to the tribe of Judah, ; where also was another place called Bethtappuah, ; and both different from another Tappuah on the…

The king of Aphek, one There was a place called Aphekah in the tribe of Judah, ; and an Aphek that was on the border of the Amorites, ; and another in the tribe of Asher, ; but Adrichomius [[12]] places this Aphek in the tribe of Issachar, whose king Joshua smote, and takes it to be the same place…

The king of Madon, one Whose name was Jobab, ; the king of Hazor, one; whose name was Jabin, and of him and his city, (See Gill on Josh. 11:1).

The king of Shimronmeron, one See : this place fell to the tribe of Zebulun, ; the king of Achshaph, one; see ; this city fell to the lot of Asher, .

The king of Taanach, one It was in the tribe of Manasseh, ; Jerom says [[15]], in his time it was a large village, distant from Legion on the plain of Esdraelon three miles: the king of Megiddo, one; which belonged to the same tribe, ; near this place were some waters where the Canaanites fought…

The king of Kedesh, one Which afterwards fell to the tribe of Naphtali, and was one of the cities of refuge, ; it was situated in upper Galilee on Mount Naphtali, four miles from the city of Sephet, and as many from Capernaum, and twenty miles from Tyre [[16]]: the king of Jokneam of Carmel, one; a…

The king of Dor, in the coast of Dor, one Of which see ; it fell to the lot of Manasseh, but never was possessed by them, as were not Taanach and Megiddo, before mentioned, ; the king of the nations of Gilgal, one; not the place where Joshua encamped after he had passed Jordan, for that was then no…

The king of Tirzah, one To what tribe this place fell is nowhere said: Adrichomius [[19]] places it in the tribe of Manasseh; and so does Bunting [[21]], who says of it, that it was a fair and beautiful city, situated on a high and pleasant mountain, in the tribe of Manasseh, twenty four miles from…