3 From Sihor e, which 3s before Egypt, even unto the borders of Ekron northward, which is counted to the Tanaanite f* five lords of the Philiſtines; the *Ga- | zathites, and the Albdothites, the Eſbkalonites, the Git- | tites, and Ekronites, alſo the * Avites £:
e A River, of which ſee I. 23. 3. and Jer. 2.18? f (e.)
Which, though now poſſeſſed by the Phili#ines, who drove out the
Canaanites the old inhabitants of it, Dewt. 2. 23. Amos 9.7, yet is a
part of the Land of Canaan, and therefore belongs to the Iſraelites, |
g Or, the Avims, as they are called, Deut. 2+ 23. who though they |
*See chap;
Chap. XI
. "chap: A gs ; ; were expelled out of their antient Seft, akd moſt of th ftroys 4 <p g To wit, ſucceſſively, ſometimes at the one, ſometimes at the | eq by. the Caphrorims or PhiliPines, 42S is - Fra fard, yet many of HCl Dene, Other City ; both being his Royal Manſions. ; | probably eſcaped, and planted rhemfelyes in ſonic other place nor 4 5s And reigned in qount Hermon,and in Salcah,and | very far from rhe former,
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4 From the ſouth, all the land of the Canaanites bh, 1Or, 2 and + Mearah 5, that is beſide the Sidenians, unto A-
phek &, tothe border of the Amorites /:
þ (i.e.) From thoſe Southern parts of the Sea-coaſt, now poſleſ- ſed by the Philiftines, all the more Northern parts. of the Sea-coaſt being yet inhabited by the Canaanites, almoſt as far as Sidon, as 1t hee follows. For there is no mention made of any Conqueſts of Joſhua upon the Sea-coaſt: The Canaanites, properly ſo called, are {aid to dwell by the ſea, Numb. 13. 29. and theſe are here ſpoken of, though ſome of them dwelt in other parts of the Land. 7 A ftrong place; ir matters not whether it was a City, or an impregnable Cave, which ſome Writers mention to be in thoſe parts. k Nor, That of Juda, of which Joſ. 15. 53. but another in the Tribe of Aſer, of which Joſ. 12.18. Judges 1. 31, 1 The Amorites were a ſtrong and very numerous people, and we find them diſperſed in ſeveral parts, ſome within Jordon, and ſome without it, ſome in the South, and others in the North, of whom he ſpeaks here.
5 Andthe land of the * Giblices », and all Lebanon *;Xi.c.18. toward the Sun-riting, from Baal-Gad under mount
Pal. 83.7. Hermon, unto the entring into Hamoth.
-m A people dwelling near S:don in Gebal, of which ſee 1 Kings 5. 18. Exeb. 29. 9.
6 Ail the inhabitants ofthe hill-countrey from Leba- non * unto Miſrephoth-maim, ard all the Sidonians, them will I drive out from before the children of Iſrael », only divide thou it by lot unto the Ifraclices for an inheritance o, as I have commanded thee. ;
n Preſently aftes thy Death, if the 1/-aelites do not hinder 1t by their unbelicfor wickedneſs. o Though they be now unconquered, yet divide them, partly as a pledge to aſſure them ofmy help in con- quering them after thy death, partly to lay an obligation upon the Iſraelites to proceed in Conquering-work, and to bear witneſs againſt them in caſe they did not ; and partly as a wall of partition berween them and the Canaanites, to prevent all Agreements, ContraQs, and Confederacies with them, to which God faw they began to encline.
7 Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance
Num:32, unto the nine tribes, and the half tribe of Manaſſeh.
13. Deut, 8 With whom p the Reubenites,and the Gadites have 3. 2, 13, received their inheritance, * which Moſes gave them be- . 22- 4. yond Jordan eaſtward, ever as Moſes the ſervant of the
LORD gave them 49.
p Heb. With him, (i. e.) with the half tribe of Menaſeh, not that half which is expreſſed v. 7. as is evident from the thing ; but the other half, which is ſufficiently and ' neceſſarily underſtood, the relative being here put for the antecedent, underſtood, as it is, Numb. 7. 89. Pſal. 114. 2. Iſa. 8. 21. Jonah 1. 3. q Which Moſes gave them by my Command, and therefore do not thou diſturb them in their Poſleſ- ſions, but proceed to divide the other Poſleſſions to the reſt.
9 From Aroer that is upon the bank of the river Ar- non, and the city that is in the midſt of the riverr, and
all the plain ot Medeba unto Dibon /.
» Of which ſee the notes on Devt. 3. 16. and on Jof. 12. 2. Either this is the ſame City now mentioned, even Aroer, which is ſaid to have been a double City, as the very name ſeems.to import, where- of one part was on the bank of the River, and the other in the mid- dle of it, whence we read of the Cities of Aroer, 1/a. 17. 2. or it 1s another City, poſſibly Ar, as it is elſe-where named. / Two Cities antiently belonging to the Moabites, and taken from them by the «<tmorites, Numb; 21. 30. and from them by the [/raelires; and after the 1/raelites were gone into Captivity, recovercd by the firſt Poſleſ- ſors the Moabites, as may ſeem from 1/9. 15. 2. ;
ro And all the cities ot Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Heſhbon, unto the border of the chil- dren of Ammon : : |
11 And Gilead, andthe berder of the Geſhurites, and Maacathites e, and all mount Hermon, and all Baſhan, unto Salcah : :
# Whoſe Land God had given to the 1/raclites without Jordan, though they had not yet uſed the gift of God, nor taken Poſſeſſion of it, as 1s noted, v. 13.
* Deut. 3. T2 All the kingdoms of Og in Baſhan, which reigned
11.chap. in Aſhtaroth, and Endrei, who remained of * the rem-
12.4 nant of the Giants: for theſe « did Moſes ſmite, and caſt them out. |
# Not all now mentioned, as appears from v. 13. but Sihon and Og, and their people, and the generality of them, which he had now named, ſome of them being cxcepred,
42 Nevertheleſs, the children of Iſrael expelled not
the Geſhurites, nor the Maacathites : but the Geſhurires and the Maacathites dwell among the Iſraclites unto
this day x. '
GAVE.
*<,11. 8,
x This ſeems added by way of anticipation 2nd refleion upon |
the preſent Iſraelites; Tmplying, that alchough Moſes did and might
permit them to remain, both becauſe the Land which he had con- |
quered was more than enough for the 7/raeliziſh Poſſeſlors; And be- cauſe being intent upon their paſſage over Jordan into the Land o Canaan, he would not delay them, by ſearching their Enemies out ofall their corners; Yet they were in fault, in not going on and perfeC&ting the work which was begun by Moſes, and carried on ſo tar by Joſhua.
14 Only unto the tribe of Levi he y gave none inheri-
tance z: the ſacrifices of the LORD God of Iſrael made