John Gill's Exposition on Deuteronomy 3:10

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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All the cities of the plain, etc.] There was a plain by Medeba, and Heshbon and her cities were in a plain, with some others given to the tribe of Reuben, (<061316>Joshua 13:16,17) and all Gilead; Mount Gilead, and the cities belonging to it, a very fruitful country, half of which fell to the share of the Reubenites, and the rest to the half tribe of Manasseh: and all Bashan; of which Og was king, called Batanea, a very fertile country, as before observed: unto Salcah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan; which seem to be frontier cities of the latter: (see <050104>Deuteronomy 1:4 3:1). The former, Adrichomius f39 says, was situated by the city Geshur and Mount Hermon, and was the boundary of the country of Bashan to the north; and according to Benjamin of Tudela f40, it was half a day’s journey from Gilead: as Edrei seems to be its boundary to the south.

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