John Gill's Exposition on Nehemiah 9:22

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Moreover, thou gavest them kingdoms and nations, etc.] The two kingdoms of Sihon and Og, and the seven nations of Canaan: and didst divide them into corners; or “corner”; into every corner of the land of Canaan, so that they possessed the whole of it, a few cities excepted; Jarchi interprets it of one corner, that they might not be mixed with the people of the land, but be all together in one place; but Aben Ezra understands it of the Canaanites, of their being divided and scattered into corners, when they fled from the Israelites; but the former sense seems best: so they possessed the land of Sihon, and the land of the king of Heshbon; or “eren”, or “namely” f62, “the land of the king of Heshbon”; for Sihon was king of Heshbon, and so the land the same: and the land of Og king of Bashan; those lands both lay on the other side Jordan, and were possessed by the tribes of Reuben and Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh.

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