Joshua 12:1

_NOW THESE ARE THE KINGS OF THE LAND, WHICH THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL SMOTE, AND POSSESSED THEIR LAND ON THE OTHER SIDE JORDAN TOWARD THE RISING OF THE SUN, FROM THE RIVER ARNON UNTO MOUNT HERMON, AND ALL THE PLAIN ON THE EAST:_ Now these are the kings of the land ... on the other side Jordan. This chapter contains a recapitulation of the conquests made, first in the country east of the Jordan and secondly in what was properly the promised land, with the additional mention of some places not formerly noticed in the sacred history. The river Arnon on the south, and mount Hermon on the north, were the respective boundaries of the land acquired by the Israelites beyond Jordan (see the note at Numbers 21:21; Deuteronomy 2:36;...

1._NOW these are the kings, _etc This chapter does not need a lengthened exposition, as it only enumerates the kings of whose territories the Israelites gained possession. Two of them are beyond the Jordan, Og and Sihon, whose rule was extensive; in the land of Canaan there are thirty-one. But though each of those now summarily mentioned was previously given more in detail, there is very good reason for here placing before our eyes as it were a living picture of the goodness of God, proving that there had been a complete ratification and performance of the covenant made with Abraham as given in the words, “Unto thy seed will I give this land.” (Genesis 12:7; Genesis 13:15; Genesis 15:18) This living image of the grace of God is here set before us as if the reality

1-6 Fresh mercies must not drown the remembrance of former mercies, nor must the glory of the present instruments of good to the church diminish the just honour of those who went before them, since God is the same who wrought by both. Moses gave to one part of Israel a very rich and fruitful country, but it was on the outside of Jordan. Joshua gave to all Israel the holy land, within Jordan. So the law has given to some few of God's spiritual Israel worldly blessings, earnests of good things to come; but our Lord Jesus, the true Joshua, provided for all the children of promise spiritual blessings, and the heavenly Canaan....

CHAPTER XII _A list of the kings on the east of Jordan, which were conquered_ _by_ MOSES, _with their territories_, 1-6. _A list of those on the west side of Jordan, conquered by_ JOSHUA, _in number thirty-one_, 7-24. NOTES ON CHAP. XII Verse Joshua 12:1. _FROM THE RIVER ARNON UNTO MOUNT HERMON_] Arnon was the boundary of all the _southern_ coast of the land _occupied_ by the Israelites beyond Jordan; and the mountains of Hermon were the boundaries on the _north_. Arnon takes its rise in the mountains of Gilead, and having run a long way from north to south falls into the Dead Sea, near the same place into which Jordan disch

ALL THE PLAIN ON THE EAST - i. e. the Arabah or depressed tract along the east bank of Jordan, the modern El-Ghor (see Numbers 22:1). Joshua 12:2 FROM THE MIDDLE OF THE RIVER - i. e. as appears from Joshua 13:9, Joshua 13:16, “from the city that is in the midst of the river;” namely,, Ar Moab (see Deuteronomy 2:36). Joshua 12:3 FROM THE PLAIN - Rend

EXPOSITION THE EXTENT OF JOSHUA'S CONQUESTS. JOSHUA 12:1 NOW THESE ARE THE KINGS. The historian now enters upon a complete description of the whole territory which had, up to this date, fallen into the hands of the Israelites. First he traces out the border of the trans-Jordanic possessions of Israel, which he describes as bounded on the south by the river Arnon, on the west of course by the Jordan, and as extending from Hermon, past the Sea of Chinneroth, to the borders of the Dead Sea. The eastern border is not clearly defined, but the boundary extended far further eastward in the north than in the south, since the territory of Og was much more extensive than that of Sihon. On the west of Jordan the territory is described as extending "from Baal-gad

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 THE MOUNT HERMON, AND ALL THE PLAIN ON THE EAST; Arnon was the border of Moab between them and the Amorites, Numbers 21:13; and from hence to Hermon, a mountain adjoining to Lebanon, lay the country of the two kings of the Amorites after mentioned, Deuteronomy 3:8; and the plain on the east were the plains of Moab, which lay to the east of Jordan....

THE CONQUERED KINGS CHAPTER 12 _ 1. The kings on the other side of Jordan (Joshua 12:1)_ 2. The kings on this side of Jordan (Joshua 12:7) “The land rested from war” is the concluding statement of the previous chapter. It was after Joshua had made war a long time with all those kings (Joshua 11:18). Deuteronomy 6:10 was also fulfilled. “And it shall be, when the LORD Thy God shall have brought thee into the land, which He sware unto thy Fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildest not, and houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, an

JOSHUA 12. LIST OF THE CONQUERED KINGS. The whole of this chapter, which is a detailed expansion of Joshua 11:16, So Joshua took all that land, is a late composition of the Deuteronomic school; of which it can only be said that the first six verses are probably less removed from historical verity than the last eighteen. The statement (Joshua 12:6, that Moses had given the half tribe of Manasseh land on the east of the Jordan is unhistorical (ch. 17*). Joshua 12:10 (_cf._ Judges 1:7) mentions the king of Jerusalem, but _cf._ Joshua 15:63 and...

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