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Gill's Exposition
The king of Debir, one,.... The same with Kirjathsepher, of which place; see Gill on Jos 10:38,
the king of Geder, one: Jerom (h) seems to confound this with the tower of Eder, beyond which Jacob…
The names of the kings are given in the order of their actual encounter with Joshua. Those enumerated in Jos 12:10-18 either belonged to the league of the southern Canaanites (Jos 10:1 ff), the power…
Adam Clarke
The king of Geder - Probably the same with Gedor, Jos 15:58; it was situated in the tribe of Judah.
We have here a breviate of Joshua's conquests.
I. The limits of the country he conquered. It lay between Jordan on the east and the Mediterranean Sea on the west, and extended from Baal-gad near…
Cambridge Bible
the king of Debir See Jos 10:39.
the king of Geder Somewhere in the lowland of Judah. Possibly the same place as the Gedor mentioned in 1Ch 4:39.