Joshua 12:14

The king of Hormah, one,.... Which was formerly called Zephath, Jdg 1:17; see Jos 15:3,

the king of Arad, one; perhaps the same with Arath, which, Jerom (i) says, is the border of the land of Judah,…

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…

The king of Hormah - Supposed to be the place where the Israelites were defeated by the Canaanites see Num 14:45; and which probably was called Hormah, הרמה chormah, or destruction, from this…

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…

the king of Hormah or Zephath, see Jdg 1:17. Robinson would place it near the pass of Es-Sufah, W.S.W. of the Dead Sea, where the Israelites were defeated by the Canaanites (Num 14:44-45), and…