John Gill's Exposition on Joshua 13:30

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And their coast was from Mahanaim, etc.] A place in the tribe of Gad, (<061326>Joshua 13:26); which was the boundary of the half tribe that way: all Bashan; so famous for its oxen, and for pasturage for them, and for its oaks, called by Josephus Batanea: all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan; which, besides Bashan, took in the kingdom of Argob or Trachonitis, half the land of Gilead, all which was possessed by the half tribe of Manasseh: (see <050313>Deuteronomy 3:13); and all the towns of, Jair which [are] in Bashan, threescore cities; of Jair, and his relation to Manasseh, and of his taking these cities, and the number of them, (see <043341>Numbers 33:41 <050304>Deuteronomy 3:4,14).

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