Joshua 12:2

_SIHON KING OF THE AMORITES, WHO DWELT IN HESHBON, AND RULED FROM AROER, WHICH IS UPON THE BANK OF THE RIVER ARNON, AND FROM THE MIDDLE OF THE RIVER, AND FROM HALF GILEAD, EVEN UNTO THE RIVER JABBOK, WHICH IS THE BORDER OF THE CHILDREN OF AMMON;_ No JFB commentary on these verses....

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....

Verse Joshua 12:2. _FROM AROER_] Aroer was situated on the western side of the river Arnon, in the middle of the valley through which this river takes its course. The kingdom of Sihon extended from the river Arnon and the city of Aroer on the _south_ to the river Jabbok on the _north_. _AND FROM HALF GILEAD _] The mountains of Gilead extended from north to south from Mount Hermon towards the source of the river Arnon, which was about the midst of the extent of the kingdom of Sihon: thus Sihon is said to have possessed the _half of Gilead_, that is, the half of the mountains and of the country which bore the name of Gilead on the east of his territories. _RIVER JABBOK_] This river has its source in the mountains of Gilead; and, running from east to west, falls into Jordan. It bounds the territories of Sihon on the nort

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

SIHON KING OF THE AMORITES, WHO DWELT IN HESHBON,.... Which he took from the Moabites, and made his capital city, Numbers 21:26; [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 FROM THE MIDDLE OF THE RIVER; that is, the river Arnon, which being the boundary of the Moabites and Amorites, the king of the Amorites might be said to rule from the middle of it: AND FROM HALF GILEAD EVEN UNTO THE RIVER JABBOK, [WHICH IS] THE BORDER OF THE CHILDREN OF AMMON; so it is said to be, Deuteronomy 3:16; it should be rendered, not "from half Gilead", but "and half Gilead", as it is in the Hebrew text, and so in the

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...

SIHON. Compare Numbers 21:23; Numbers 21:24.Deuteronomy 3:6...

_Sihon king of the Amorites_ See Numbers 21:24; Deuteronomy 2:33; Deuteronomy 3:6; Deuteronomy 3:16. _who dwelt in Heshbon_ On the western border of the high plain (_Mishor_, Joshua 13:17), and on the boundary line between the tribes of Reuben and Gad. "The ruins of _Hesbân_, 20 miles east of the Jordan, on the parallel of the northern end of the Dead Sea, mark the site, as they bear the name, of the ancient Heshbon." "There is little, of a place once famed in olden story, for the traveller to see. A large piece of walli