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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Joshua 11:23

The whole land — That is, the greatest and best part of it, for some parts are expressly excepted in the following history. All that the Lord said unto Moses — God had promised to drive out the nations before them. And now the promise was fulfilled. Our successes and enjoyments are then doubly comfortable, when we see them flowing to us from the promise. This is according to what the Lord hath said: our obedience is acceptable, when it has an eye to the precept. And if we make a conscience of our duty, we need not question the performance of the promise.

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See also Joshua 11:23 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Joshua 11:23. _SO JOSHUA TOOK THE WHOLE LAND_] All the country described here and in the preceding chapter. Besides the multitudes that perished in this war, many of the Canaanites took refuge...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    These words import that Joshua had overcome all overt resistance. There were, however, many districts by no means thoroughly and finally subdued Joshua 13:1....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    FURTHER CONQUESTS CHAPTER 11 _ 1. Jabin and his confederacy (Joshua 11:1)_ 2. The divine encouragement (Joshua 11:6) 3. The victory (Joshua 11:7) 4. The obedience of Joshua ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JOSHUA 11. DEFEAT OF JABIN AND HIS COALITION. Jabin, king of Hazor, gathers a vast army of Canaanites at the Waters of Merom (locality uncertain, p. 32). The coalition was utterly defeated, the king w...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    ACCORDING TO. Compare Numbers 26:53. But some codices, with seven early printed editions, Septuagint, and Syriac, read "in their portions"....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Extermination of the Anakims 21. _at that time_ That is, in the course of the "long time," the seven years spoken of in Joshua 11:18. We have now a supplementary notice of the destruction of the Anak...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _And the land rested from war_ But this does not denote a permanent cessation. It rather implies that the Israelites no longer needed to war _unitedly_against the Canaanites. There was yet much land t...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 254 THE CONQUEST AND PARTITION OF CANAAN Joshua 11:23. _So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the Lord said unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel acc...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _VER._ 23. _SO JOSHUA TOOK THE WHOLE LAND_— All that belonged to the Amoritish kings eastward of Jordan. Innumerable Canaanites perished in this war; others, in some places, saved themselves: God did...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _A Summary of Joshua's Campaigns Joshua 11:16-23_ 16 _So_ Joshua took all that land, the hills, and all the south country, and all the land of Goshen, and the valley, and the plain, and the mountain...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _SO JOSHUA TOOK THE WHOLE LAND, ACCORDING TO ALL THAT THE LORD SAID UNTO MOSES; AND JOSHUA GAVE IT FOR AN INHERITANCE UNTO ISRAEL ACCORDING TO THEIR DIVISIONS BY THEIR TRIBES. AND THE LAND RESTED FROM...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE CAMPAIGN IN THE NORTH Here there is no trace, as in the former case, of miraculous interposition. Joshua's generalship, courage, swiftness and loyalty are the prominent factors in the achievement...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    COME IN, AND RECEIVE GOD’S PROMISES! JOSHUA _BRIAN ROWLANDS_ Maps to help you to study this book are on the Internet at www.easyenglish.info. CHAPTER 11 THE *ISRAELITES DEFEAT THE TOWNS IN THE...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יִּקַּ֨ח יְהֹושֻׁ֜עַ אֶת ־כָּל ־הָ אָ֗רֶץ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XX. THE BATTLE OF MEROM. Joshua Chs. 11, 12. THERE is some appearance of confusion in the terms in which the great confederacy of native princes against Israel is brought in. In the beginnin...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    MUCH LAND YET TO BE POSSESSED Joshua 11:16; Joshua 13:1 We do not know how long the war lasted. Probably about seven years, Joshua 14:10 (forty-five less thirty-eight). It was only in David's reign t...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    A new confederacy had now to be faced and fought. Conscious of their peril, the northern kings now joined in an attempt to break the power of those conquering hosts. Turning north, Joshua led an attac...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    Joshua 11:1-23 concludes the brief summary of the conquest of the land of Canaan. Jabin, king of Hazor, called for a number of the kings of the north to align with him and attack Israel. God again rea...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    These verses sum up the account of the whole conquests of all the northern parts of Canaan. If we compute the different periods, it should seem that it took no less a time than five or six years to su...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    REFLECTIONS BEHOLD, my soul, in those wars of Joshua, the lively similitude of the victories thy Joshua hath accomplished, in the attainment of the heavenly Canaan. How did Jesus wade through difficul...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    In the wars of Jehovah it was not always a question of hostile power. Indeed this is not the most serious evil which the people of God have to encounter in this world. The very same principle which wa...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    23._So Joshua took the whole land_, (120) etc Although it was far from being true that Joshua had actually acquired the whole land, yet he is truly said to have obtained it as God had declared to Mose...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Israel's victories bring fresh war upon them; but the confederation of their enemies only serves to deliver them all together into their hands. If God will not have peace, it is because He will have v...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    SO JOSHUA TOOK THE WHOLE LAND,.... Of Canaan, the far greater and better part of it, all before described; all that he went against, he failed not in any of his attempts; no place stood out against hi...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD said unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _So Joshua took the whole land_ Which either the Canaanites or the Anakims possessed; that is, subdued it, so that none rose up against him, though many places were not yet in the possession of the Is...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Diuers Kings ouercome at the waters of Merom. 10 Hazor is taken and burnt. 16 All the countrey taken by Ioshua. 21 The Anakims cut off. [IOSHUA CONQUERETH DIUERS KINGS.] 1 AND it came to passe,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE CONQUEST OF WESTERN PALESTINE...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the Lord said unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel according to their divisions by their tribes, as related in the subsequ...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    CONQUEST OF NORTHERN ENEMIES (vs.1-15) Israel's returning for the time being to Gilgal gave time for the nations in the north to mobilize. In this God's wisdom is evident, for He brought these natio...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    15-23 Never let the sons of Anak be a terror to the Israel of God, for their day to fall will come. The land rested from war. It ended not in a peace with the Canaanites, that was forbidden, but in a...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THE WHOLE LAND, synecdochically, i.e. the greatest and the best part of it, for some parts and places are expressly excepted in the following history. FROM WAR; from actual war; so far that they could...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Joshua 11:23 Joshua H3091 took H3947 (H8799) land H776 LORD H3068 said H1696 (H8765) Moses H4872 Joshua...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘ So Joshua took the whole land, in accordance with all that YHWH said to Moses, and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel, according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land had rest fr...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Joshua 11:23 This text is said to be directly at issue with other statements in the Book of Joshua. Thus the fifteenth chapter ends with these words: "As for the Jebusites, the children of Jerusalem c...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Final conquest of Canaan. CHARACTERS: God, Joshua, Jabin, Jobab. CONCLUSION: Those who, through obedience to His precepts, have God on their side, need not be disturbed as to the number an...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Joshua 11:1. _Hazor,_ then the metropolis of a powerful kingdom, Jeremiah 49:28, is situate on Lake _Merom,_ forty miles north of the sea of Galilee. Jabin with all the allies, 300,000 infantry, and 2...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _The land rested from war._ THE FIGHT FROM WHICH THEY RESTED Though the records of this war are short, we know that “Joshua made war a long time with all these kings.” Only the most striking and sali...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _When Jabin king of Hazor had heard._ TAKE HEED HOW YE HEAR I. Healing and not hearing. The tidings of the overthrow of Sihon and Og, and the fall of Jericho, seem to have made almost no impression...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOSHUA—NOTE ON JOSHUA 11:1__ The northern campaign takes shape as an effort to defend the Israelites against the coalition of northern kings gathered around Jabin of Hazor. ⇐

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOSHUA—NOTE ON JOSHUA 11:23 This verse begins the transition from the conquest phase (JOSHUA TOOK THE WHOLE LAND) to the occupation phase (JOSHUA GAVE IT FOR AN INHERITANCE TO ISRAEL; see chs....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— Joshua 11:17. From the mount Halak] _Marg. =_“The smooth mountain;” or “the bare” or “bald” mountain: thought by Robinson and others to be a row of white cliffs, from sixty to eighty...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THE PROSECUTION OF THE WAR.— JOSHUA 11:1 AND IT CAME TO PASS. The political constitution of Palestine was, humanly speaking, the cause of its overthrow. The division of the country into a...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    So in chapter eleven, the other kings when they had heard what happened to these kings that had come out against them, they also went out with their host. These are now the kings that are in the area...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Timothy 4:7; 2 Timothy 4:8; Deuteronomy 11:23; Exodus 23:27;...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH Joshua 11:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We have heard of old that "to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams." This is true. The outstanding feature in...

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