Joshua 12:7 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown Book Notes

Joshua 12:7

5 and reigned over ^aMount Hermon, ^bover Salcah, over all Bashan, ^cas far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and over half of Gilead to the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.

6 ^aThese Moses the servant of the Lord and the children of Israel had conquered; and ^bMoses the servant of the Lord had given it as a possession to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh.

The Kings Conquered by Joshua

7 And these are the kings of the country ^awhich Joshua and the children of Israel conquered on this side of the Jordan, on the west, from Baal Gad in the Valley of Lebanon as far as¹ Mount Halak and the ascent to ^bSeir, which Joshua ^cgave to the tribes of Israel as a possession according to their divisions,

8 ^ain the mountain country, in the lowlands, in the Jordan plain, in the slopes, in the wilderness, and in the South—^bthe Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites:

9 ^athe king of Jericho, one; ^bthe king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one;

10 ^athe king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one;

11 the king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one;

12 the king of Eglon, one; ^athe king of Gezer, one;

13 ^athe king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one;

14 the king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one;

15 ^athe king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;

16 ^athe king of Makkedah, one; ^bthe king of Bethel, one;

17 the king of Tappuah, one; ^athe king of Hepher, one;

18 the king of Aphek, one; the king of Lasharon, one;

19 the king of Madon, one; ^athe king of Hazor, one;

20 the king of ^aShimron Meron, one; the king of Achshaph, one;

21 the king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one;

22 ^athe king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam in Carmel, one;

23 the king of Dor in the ^aheights of Dor, one; the king of ^bthe people of Gilgal, one;

24 the king of Tirzah, one—^aall the kings, thirty-one.

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Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown Book Notes

Joshua

JOSHUA. The title of this book is derived from the pious and valiant leader whose achievements it relates and who is commonly supposed to have been its author. The objections to this idea are founded chiefly on the clause, "unto this day," which occurs several times (Joshua 4:9; Joshua 6:25; Joshua 8:28). But this, at least in the case of Rahab, is no valid reason for rejecting the idea of his authorship; for assuming what is most probable, that this book was composed toward the close of Joshua's long career, or compiled from written documents left by him, Rahab might have been still alive. A more simple and satisfactory way of accounting for the frequent insertion of the clause, "unto this day," is the opinion that it was a comment introduced by Ezra, when revising the sacred canon; and this difficulty being removed, the direct proofs of the book having been produced by a witness of the transactions related in it, the strong and vivid descriptions of the passing scenes, and the use of the words "we" and "us," (Joshua 5:1-6), viewed in connection with the fact, that, after his farewell address to the people, Joshua "wrote these words in the book of the law of God" [Joshua 24:26] —all afford strong presumptive proof that the entire book was the work of that eminent individual. Its inspiration and canonical authority are fully established by the repeated testimonies of other Scripture writers (compare Joshua 6:26 with I Kings 16:34; compare Joshua 10:13 with Habakkuk 3:11; Joshua 3:14 with Acts 7:45; Joshua 6:17-23 with Hebrews 11:30; Joshua 2:1-24 with James 2:25; Psalms 44:2; Psalms 68:12-14; Psalms 78:54-55). As a narrative of God's faithfulness in giving the Israelites possession of the promised land, this history is most valuable, and bears the same character as a sequel to the Pentateuch, that the Acts of the Apostles do to the Gospels.

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