And Joshua smote them from Kadesh-barnea even unto Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, even unto Gibeon.

All the country of Goshen - (cf. Joshua 11:16.) 'The southern frontier of Palestine, which almost imperceptibly loses itself in the desert of Sinai, is sometimes called the land of "Goshen," or the "frontier," doubtless for the same reason as the more famous tract between the cultivated Egypt and the Arabian desert, in which the Israelites dwelt before the exodus' (Stanley, 'Sinai and Palestine,' p. 159).

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