All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon unto Misrephothmaim, and all the Sidonians, them will I drive out from before the children of Israel: only divide thou it by lot unto the Israelites for an inheritance, as I have commanded thee.
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Gill's Exposition
All the inhabitants of the hill country,.... Not in Judea, but in and about Lebanon, as follows:
from Lebanon unto Misrephothmaim; of which see Jos 11:8,
and all the Sidonians; the inhabitants of…
Barnes' Notes
The King James Version would exhibit the sense more clearly if the words from the beginning of Jos 13:2 to the words “the Sidonians” in this verse were placed in a parenthesis, and the order of the…
Adam Clarke
Misrephoth-maim - See on Jos 11:7 (note).
These will I drive out - That is, if the Israelites continued to be obedient; but they did not, and therefore they never fully possessed the whole of that…
Here, I. God puts Joshua in mind of his old age, v. 1. 1. It is said that Joshua was old and stricken in years, and he and Caleb were at this time the only old men among the thousands of Israel, none…
Cambridge Bible
All the inhabitants In addition to those already enumerated there remained to be conquered all the inhabitants of the mountains from Lebanon unto Mizrephoth-maim, which has been already mentioned…
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