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John Gill's Exposition on Joshua 13:25
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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And their coast was Jazer, etc.] Their southern coast; of Jazer, (see <042132>Numbers 21:32); where it is called Jaazer, and is mentioned in (<231608>Isaiah 16:8); and in (<244832>Jeremiah 48:32), where it is spoken of as a city of Moab, as it was in the days of those prophets: and all the cities of Gilead; which lay in those parts, for the whole was not given to this tribe, half of Gilead was given to the half tribe of Manasseh, (<061331>Joshua 13:31); and half the land of the children of Ammon; not what then belonged to them, but what had been taken from them by the Amorites; and which Israel taking from them, had a right to retain, though they were forbid meddling with any of their land in present possession; (see <050219> Deuteronomy 2:19) (<071113>Judges 11:13-24); unto Aroer that [is] before Rabbath; Aroer was a city of Moab, situated on the river Arnon, (<061309>Joshua 13:9); and stood over against Rabbath, a city of the Amorites, since called Philadelphia, the same that Joab took, (<101226>2 Samuel 12:26); though Reland thinks f285, that according to the situation of these cities another Aroer must be here meant, and which belonged to the Amorites.
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