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Joshua 12:5

in Joshua 12

He ruled over Mount Hermon, Salecah, all of Bashan up to the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and half of Gilead to the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

and ruled in mount Hermon, and in Salecah, and in all Bashan, unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.

KJV

And reigned in mount Hermon, and in Salcah, and in all Bashan, unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.

This verse in Joshua 12

Commentary

6 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

The border of the Geshurites - The country of Bashan, in the days of Moses and Joshua, extended from the river Jabbok on the south to the frontiers of the Geshurites and Maachathites on the north, to the foot of the mountains of Hermon.

This site's exposition

And Og king of Bashan, one of the remnant of the Rephaim

on Joshua 12:4-6

Og is named “the remnant of the Rephaim”, and his seat Ashtaroth is where Genesis 14:5 places the Rephaim struck by Chedorlaomer. Deuteronomy 3:11 alone gives his measure, an iron bed nine cubits long. Verse 6 records the grant of Numbers 32:33 as settled before any western king is named.

This site's exposition

up to the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites

Og's kingdom ran north to the foot of Hermon, and Adam Clarke places the Geshurites and Maacathites on its northern edge. Joshua 13:13 records that Israel never drove those two peoples out. Salecah also marks the limit of Bashan at Deuteronomy 3:10.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Ephrem the Syrian

COMMENTARY ON TATIAN'S DIATESSARON 19.8 · Written before 373.

proposed

Whoever believes in me will also do the works which I do, and will do even greater ones. And where is this word which he said, "The disciple is not greater than his master" [illustrated]? For example, Moses killed only three kings, but Joshua killed …

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Moses had described this country very particularly ( Deut. ii. 4 , &c.), and this description here agrees with his. King Og is said to dwell at Ashtaroth and Edrei (

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How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

Half of the Gilod, the boundry of Sichon. That was the border of Sichon’s domain, as we said above, 1 See Verse. that half of Gilod was his, and this second half was Og’s.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on Joshua 12:5:1, 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

16 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.

  • וּ֠מֹשֵׁלand [who] ruled

    umoshelH4910 →

  • בְּהַ֨רover [the] mountain of

    beharH2022 →546 times

  • חֶרְמ֤וֹןHermon

    chermonH2768 →13 times

  • וּבְסַלְכָה֙and over Salecah

    uvesalkhahH5548 →

  • וּבְכָל־and over all

    uvekhol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הַבָּשָׁ֔ן<the> Bashan

    habashanH1316 →60 times

  • עַד־to

    ʾad-H5704 →1261 times

  • גְּב֥וּל[the] border of

    gevulH1366 →240 times

  • הַגְּשׁוּרִ֖יthe Geshurite[s]

    hageshuriH1651 →6 times

  • וְהַמַּעֲכָתִ֑יand the Maacathite[s]

    vehamaakhatiH4602 →8 times

  • וַחֲצִי֙and [the] half of

    vachatziH2677 →125 times

  • הַגִּלְעָ֔ד<the> Gilead

    hagiladH1568 →134 times

  • גְּב֖וּל[the] border of

    gevulH1366 →240 times

  • סִיח֥וֹןSihon

    sichonH5511 →37 times

  • מֶֽלֶךְ־[the] king of

    melekh-H4428 →2525 times

  • חֶשְׁבּֽוֹן׃Heshbon

    cheshbonH2809 →38 times

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

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

    2 Samuel 13:37

    Now Absalom fled and went to Talmai son of Ammihud, the king of Geshur. But David mourned for his son every day.

    it leads to

    • 2 Samuel 3:3

      his second was Chileab, by Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel; his third was Absalom, the son of Maacah daughter of King Talmai of Geshur;

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 2 Samuel 14:23

      So Joab got up, went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.

  • Through

    1 Samuel 27:8

    Now David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites. (From ancient times these people had inhabited the land extending to Shur and Egypt.)

    it leads to

    • Joshua 13:13

      but the Israelites did not drive out the Geshurites or the Maacathites. So Geshur and Maacath dwell among the Israelites to this day.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Joshua 13:2

      This is the land that remains:

    • 1 Samuel 15:7–8

      Then Saul struck down the Amalekites all the way from Havilah to Shur, which is east of Egypt.

  • Through

    Deuteronomy 3:14

    Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, took the whole region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites. He renamed Bashan after himself, Havvoth-jair, by which it is called to this…

    it leads to

    • Numbers 32:41

      Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, went and captured their villages and called them Havvoth-jair.

    • 2 Samuel 13:37

      Now Absalom fled and went to Talmai son of Ammihud, the king of Geshur. But David mourned for his son every day.

    • 2 Samuel 10:6

      When the Ammonites realized that they had become a stench to David, they hired twenty thousand Aramean foot soldiers from Beth-rehob and Zoba, as well as a thousand men from the king of Maacah…

Where this verse is studied

About Joshua

Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon, John Martin, 1816, National Gallery of Art. Public domain.
Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon, John Martin, 1816, National Gallery of Art. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Ephrem the Syrian, COMMENTARY ON TATIAN'S DIATESSARON 19.8; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.