Joshua 13:18

“And Jahazah, etc.] Called Jahaz, (<042123>Numbers 21:23), where the battle was fought between Sihon and Israel: and Kedemoth; near to which was a wilderness, which took its name from it, from whence Moses sent messengers with words of peace to Sihon, (<050226>Deuteronomy 2:26); and Mephaath; thought to be the Maipha of Ptolemy f278; here Jerom says , in his time was a garrison of Roman soldiers, because of the desert that was near. It was a city, with its suburbs, given to the Levites, as were the two preceding, (<062136>Joshua 21:36,37); Adrichomius f280 takes it to be the same with Malle, which, Josephus says, f281 was called the city of the strangers. f279”

“The writer appends to the command of God Joshua 13:1-7 a statement that the other two tribes and a half had already had their inheritance marked out for them by Moses in the land east of Jordan. The boundaries of this territory as a whole are first set forth Joshua 13:8-14, and afterward the portions assigned within it to the two tribes and a half are severally described Joshua 13:15-33. Joshua 13:14 See Deuteronomy 18:1-5 and notes. Joshua 13:15-24 Inheritance of the tribe of Reuben. This territory was the most southerly of the trans-Jordanic possessions of Israel, and adjoined Moab, which lay only on the other side of the Arnon. Hence, the Reubenites became in after times much intermixed…”

“Jahaza: A city near Medeba and Dibon, afterwards given to the Levites. Jos 21:36, Jos 21:37; Num 21:23, Jahaz, Ch1 6:78, Ch1 6:79, Jahzah Kedemoth: Supposed to have been situated east of the Arnon. Mephaath: Situated near the desert, east of Moab. In the time of Eusebius, he says the Romans kept a garrison there. Joshua 13:19”