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Joshua 11:16

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So Joshua took this entire region: the hill country, all the Negev, all the land of Goshen, the western foothills, the Arabah, and the mountains of Israel and their foothills,

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

So Joshua took all that land, the hill-country, and all the South, and all the land of Goshen, and the lowland, and the Arabah, and the hill-country of Israel, and the lowland of the same;

KJV

So Joshua took all that land, the hills, and all the south country, and all the land of Goshen, and the valley, and the plain, and the mountain of Israel, and the valley of the same;

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This verse in Joshua 11

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

The mountain of Israel, and the valley of the same - This place has given considerable trouble to commentators; and it is not easy to assign such a meaning to the place as may appear in all respects satisfactory. 1. If we consider this verse and the 21st to have been added after the times in which the kingdoms of Israel and Judah were divided, the difficulty is at once removed.

This site's exposition

So Joshua took all that

on Joshua 11:16-18

The summary sweeps from mount Halak going up to Seir in the far south to Baalgad under Hermon in the north, which is the length of the country in one line. Verse 18 is the check on reading chapters 10 and 11 as a few weeks of fighting, because it says Joshua made war a long time with all those kings. Caleb supplies the arithmetic at Joshua 14:7-10, forty years old when Moses sent him and eighty-five when he asks for Hebron, and the forty-five years he counts leave about seven years of campaigning after the crossing on the usual reckoning.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

So Joshua took all that land--Here follows a general view of the conquest. The division of the country there into five parts; namely, the hills, the land of Goshen, that is, a pastoral land near Gibeon (Jos 10:41); the valley, the plains and the mountains of Israel, i. e., Carmel, rests upon a diversity of geographical positions, which is characteristic of the region.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

The bare, divided mountain. A smooth mountain. 5 It was so called because there were no trees on it. It was divided between Yaakov and Eisov. The part belonging to Yaakov was bare and smooth as Yaakov himself. See Bereishis:11.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on Joshua 11:17:1, via Sefaria, The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 4 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

22 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיִּקַּ֨חand he took

    vaiyikachH3947 →966 times

  • יְהוֹשֻׁ֜עַJoshua

    yehoshua'H3091 →218 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הָאָ֣רֶץthe land

    haaretzH776 →2504 times

  • הַזֹּ֗את<the> this

    hazotH2063 →603 times

  • הָהָ֤רthe hill country

    haharH2022 →546 times

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הַנֶּ֙גֶב֙the Negev

    hanegevH5045 →112 times

  • וְאֵת֙and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • אֶ֣רֶץ[the] land of

    ʾeretzH776 →2504 times

  • הַגֹּ֔שֶׁן<the> Goshen

    hagoshenH1657 →15 times

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • הַשְּׁפֵלָ֖הthe Shephelah

    hashefelahH8219 →20 times

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • הָעֲרָבָ֑הthe Arabah

    haaravahH6160 →61 times

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • הַ֥ר[the] hill country of

    harH2022 →546 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֖לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • וּשְׁפֵלָתֹֽה׃and Shephelah its

    ushefelatohH8219 →20 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

12 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Joshua 12:8the hill country, the foothills, the Arabah, the slopes, the wilderness, and the Negev—the lands of the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites):6 worksJoshua 10:41Joshua conquered the area from Kadesh-barnea to Gaza, and the whole region of Goshen as far as Gibeon.5 worksJoshua 15:51Goshen, Holon, and Giloh—eleven cities, along with their villages.4 worksJoshua 11:21At that time Joshua proceeded to eliminate the Anakim from the hill country of Hebron, Debir, and Anab, and from all the hill country of Judah and of Israel. Joshua devoted them to destruction, along with their cities.3 worksEzekiel 36:8But you, O mountains of Israel, will produce branches and bear fruit for My people Israel, for they will soon come home.2 worksJoshua 9:1Now when news of this reached all the kings west of the Jordan—those in the hill country, the foothills, and all along the coast of the Great Sea toward Lebanon (the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites)—2 works
The other 6 cross-references, with their words ▾
Numbers 34:2–13“Command the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land of Canaan, it will be allotted to you as an inheritance with these boundaries:2 worksGenesis 15:18–21On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates—2 worksDeuteronomy 34:2–3all of Naphtali, the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the Western Sea,2 worksEzekiel 36:1–3“And you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel and say: O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD.2 worksJoshua 11:2to the kings of the north in the mountains, in the Arabah south of Chinnereth, in the foothills, and in Naphoth-dor to the west;2 worksEzekiel 17:23I will plant it on the mountain heights of Israel so that it will bear branches; it will yield fruit and become a majestic cedar. Birds of every kind will nest under it, taking shelter in the shade of its branches.2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Ezekiel 36:8

    But you, O mountains of Israel, will produce branches and bear fruit for My people Israel, for they will soon come home.

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 27:6

      In the days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will bud and blossom and fill the whole world with fruit.

  • Through

    Joshua 9:1

    Now when news of this reached all the kings west of the Jordan—those in the hill country, the foothills, and all along the coast of the Great Sea toward Lebanon (the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites,…

    it leads to

    • Numbers 34:6

      Your western border will be the coastline of the Great Sea; this will be your boundary on the west.

    • Exodus 3:17

      And I have promised to bring you up out of your affliction in Egypt, into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey.’

  • Through

    Joshua 12:8

    the hill country, the foothills, the Arabah, the slopes, the wilderness, and the Negev—the lands of the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites):

    it leads to

    • Joshua 10:40

      So Joshua conquered the whole region—the hill country, the Negev, the foothills, and the slopes, together with all their kings—leaving no survivors. He devoted to destruction everything that breathed, just as the LORD, the…

    • Joshua 9:1

      Now when news of this reached all the kings west of the Jordan—those in the hill country, the foothills, and all along the coast of the Great Sea toward Lebanon (the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites,…

  • Through

    Joshua 11:21

    At that time Joshua proceeded to eliminate the Anakim from the hill country of Hebron, Debir, and Anab, and from all the hill country of Judah and of Israel. Joshua devoted them to destruction,…

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 9:2

      The people are strong and tall, the descendants of the Anakim. You know about them, and you have heard it said, “Who can stand up to the sons of Anak?”

    • Numbers 13:22–23

      They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, dwelled. It had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.

  • Through

    Joshua 10:41

    Joshua conquered the area from Kadesh-barnea to Gaza, and the whole region of Goshen as far as Gibeon.

    it leads to

    • Joshua 15:51

      Goshen, Holon, and Giloh—eleven cities, along with their villages.

Where this verse is studied

About Joshua

The Walls of Jericho Fall Down, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Walls of Jericho Fall Down, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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