Joshua 12:4

_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 12:4. _COAST OF OG KING OF BASHAN_] Concerning this person see the notes on Deuteronomy 3:11, and on Numbers 21:35, c. _THE REMNANT OR THE GIANTS_] Or, _Rephaim_. See the notes on Genesis 6:4; Genesis 14:5, and Deuteronomy 2:7; Deuteronomy 2:11....

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

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; Deuteronomy 3:11: THAT DWELT AT ASHTAROTH AND AT EDREI; of which two places see Deuteronomy 1:4; it seems as if Og had a palace in each of those cities, and sometimes was at one and sometimes at another, as is usual with kings....

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...

COAST. border, or confines. GIANTS. Deb. _Rephaim._ Another branch of the _Nephilim_, called so after one. _Rapha;_ as the _Anakim_ after Anak:. See App-23 and App-25....

_the coast of Og_ See Numbers 21:33; Numbers 21:35; Deuteronomy 3:4; Deuteronomy 3:10. _at Ashtaroth_ The residence of Og. It is now called _Tel Ashterah_, or _Asherah_. The Tel (_hill_) rises to a height of between fifty and a hundred feet from the level of the plain, in which ruins lie scattered. At the foot of the hill are ancient foundations of walls and copious springs. _at Edrei_ = _Strength_. Here, "in the Thermopylæ of his kingdom," Og was slain. See Numbers 21:33-35;...