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Joshua 12:8

Joshua 12:8
In the mountains, and in the valleys, and in the plains, and in the springs, and in the wilderness, and in the south country; the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites:

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

In the mountains, and in the valleys, and in the plains, and in the springs, and in the wilderness, and in the south country,.... Which is a description of the whole land of Canaan; some parts of…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Joshua 12:7-24

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…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Joshua 12:7-24

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…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Joshua 12:7-24

Catalogue of the Kings vanquished on the West of the Jordan

7. And these are the kings This and the following verse coincide with ch. Jos 11:16, and Jos 10:40-42. They introduce the following…