2 The other giants.of Baſhan were deſtroyed before ; and there- fore when Og was killed, the Jraelites work was done, 1 Where it might now be, either becauſe the Ammonites 1n ſome former battel with Og had takea ir as a ſpoil : or becauſe after Og's death, the 4m- monites deſired to have this monument of his greatneſs, and the Iſ- raelites permitted them to carry it away to their chief city. & Io wit, of ordinary ſtature. So. his bed was four yards. and an half long, and two yards broad. | |
12 And-this land which we poſſeſſed at that time from Aroer, which 5s by the river Arnon, and half mount Gi- lead,and *the cities thereof,gave I unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites.
13 And the reft of Gilead, and all Baſhan, being the kingdom of Og,gavel unto the half cribe of Manaileh : all the region of Argob, wich all Baſhan,which was cal- led the land of giants
14 * Jair the ſon of Manaſſch took all the countrey of Argob, unto the coaſts of Geſhuri /, and Maachathi m, and called them after his own name Baſhan * Havoth-
Jair unto this day ». |
1 Or, Geſburites, a people towards the North of Canaan, 2 Sam. 3. 3. and 15. 8. See alſo Jol. 13. 13. m Of whom ſee 2 San. 3. 3- and 10. 6. » This muſt be put among thoſe other paſſages which were not written by Moſes, but add:d by thoſe holy men who di- geſted the books of Moſes into this order and inſerted ſome yery few paſſages to accomodate things to their own time and people.
15 And * I gave Gijcad o unto Machir p.
0 (7.e.) The half part of Gilead, as appears from v. 12,,13. See on Numb. 32.40. p (3. e. ) Unto the children of Machir ſon of Ma- naſſeh, for Machir was now dead.
16 And unto the Reubenites,and unto the Gadites I gave from Gilead even unto the River Arnon, half the valley q, and the border, even unto the river Jabbok r,
* which # the border of the children of Ammon x.
q Or rather 70 the middle of the River ; for the word rendred half ſignifies commonly middle, and the ſame Hebrew word fignifying both a valley and a brook or river,it ſeems more reaſonable to under- ſtand it of a River, as the ſame word is-here rendred in the next foregoing clauſe of this verſe, chan ofa valley, which was not men- tioned before, eſpecially ſcing there is here an article added which ſeems to be emphatical, and ro note that River, to wit, now men- tioned. Add to this, that there was no ſuch valley, much leſs any half-valley, bzlonging both unto the Reubenites and Gadites. But according to the other tranſlation the ſenſe is plain and agreeable to the truth, that their Land extended from Gileadunto Arnon,ani to ſpeak exaQly, to the middle of that River, for as that River was the border between them and otiers,ſo one half of it belonged to them,
*Joſh. 12 a 5. 13. 11,
* ,Sam. 12:26.
Jer 49.2+
*Numb: 32: 33+ Joſh:13:8. Kc.
*; Chron: 2:22. *Numb. 22. 41.
* Numb: $2. 39-
* Numb. 21. 24.
Joſh.12.2.
. as the other half did to others. And that this is no ſubtil device,as |
ſome may think ir, bur the truth of the thing, and the real meaning of the place, will appear by comparing this place with two others, 7. with Joſ. 12. 2. where the ſame thing is expreſſed in the ſame words in the Hebrew whici are here,though our tranſlators render the ſelf-ſame words there, from the midale of the River, which here they render, half of
kingdom, which was the ſame portion here mentioned! as given to
Reuben and Gad, and thus deſcribed, from Aroer, which is upon the bank of the River of Arnmm, and frm the midale of the River, and from half Gilead, even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the chil- #ren of Ammon. 2.With Deur.2.36. From Aroer, which is by. the brink of the river of Arne, and f:om the city that is by the River, or rather, as the Hebrew hath it, in the River, 3. e. from Ar, which 'was the chief city of the Moabites, and therefore denied to the Iſraelites. as 1s here implied, and more fully expreſſed, Deut. 2. 9. which City was ſeated inan iſland in the middle of the Rives have a juſt and full reaſon why the border of this Land given to Reuben and Gad is ſo nicely and crifieally deſcribed here, even to the middle of a River, which alrhough in truth and ftri&neſs it te the bound of choſe Lands which are divided by a River, yet is not
che walley ; and where the bounds of Sihons +
ver:;, So thar hereve }
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