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John Gill's Exposition on Joshua 12:5
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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And reigned in Mount Hermon, etc.] That is, over all the people that inhabited that mount or dwelt under it, (<061117>Joshua 11:17), and adjacent to it, of which mountain, (see Gill on “<050308>Deuteronomy 3:8-9”) and in Salcah: which was a city belonging to the kingdom of Og, (<050310>Deuteronomy 3:10); and in all Bashan; or Batanea, a country famous for pasturage, (<330714>Micah 7:14 <245019>Jeremiah 50:19), and for fat cattle, (<263918>Ezekiel 39:18), and for oaks, (<230213>Isaiah 2:13 <262706>Ezekiel 27:6 <381102>Zechariah 11:2), frequently mentioned in Scripture: unto the border of the Geshurites, and the Maachathites; which were two nations the Israelites never expelled, (<061313>Joshua 13:13); of which (see <050314> Deuteronomy 3:14); and half Gilead; which belonged to Og, as the other half did to Sihon, before observed, which was as follows: the border of Sihon king of Heshbon; here the two kingdoms joined, even in the midst of Gilead, which was divided between them, but now wholly fell into the hands of Israel.
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