Annotations upon the Holy Bible. Vol. I wherein the sacred text is inserted, and various readings annex'd, together with parallel scriptures, the more difficult terms in each verse are explained, seeming contradictions reconciled, questions and doubts resolved, and the whole text opened / by the late reverend and learned divine Mr. Matthew Poole.

CHAP. XII.

NOW these are the kings of the Land, which the children of Israel smote, and possessed their land on the other side Jordan, toward the ri∣sing of the Sun: from the river Arnon, unto mount Hermon, and all the plain on the east a 1.1.

2 * 1.2 Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is upon the bank of the river of Arnon, and from the middle of the river b 1.3, and from half Gilead c 1.4, even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the chil∣dren of Ammon:

3 And * 1.5 from the plain unto the sea of Cinne∣roth on the east d 1.6, and unto the sea of the plain e 1.7, even the salt sea on the east, the way to Beth-jeshi∣moth: and from * 1.8 the south f 1.9 under † * 1.10 Ashdoth∣pisgah.* 1.11

4 ¶ And the coast of Og king of Bashan which was of the † remnant of the giants, that * 1.12 dwelt at* 1.13 Ashtaroth, and at Edrei g 1.14.

5 And reigned in mount Hermon, and in Sal∣cah, and in all Bashan, unto the border of the Geshurite h 1.15, and the Maacathite, and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.

6 * 1.16 Them did Moses the servant of the LORD, and the children of Israel smite, and * 1.17 Moses the servant of the LORD gave it for a possession unto the Reubenite, and Gadite, and the half tribe of Manasseh.

7 And these are the kings of the country, which Joshua and the children of Israel smote on this side Jordan, on the west, from Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon, even unto * 1.18 the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir, which Joshua gave unto the tribes of Is∣rael for a possession according to their divisions.

8 In the mountain, and in the vale, and in the plain, and in the springs, and in the wilderness i 1.19, and in the south countrey; the Hittite, the Amo∣rite, and the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

9 ¶ * 1.20 The king of Jericho, one: * 1.21 the king of Ai which is beside Beth-el k 1.22, one:

10 * 1.23 The king of Jerusalem, one: the king of Hebron, one:

11 The king of Jarmuth, one: the king of La∣chish, one:

12 The king of Eglon, one: * 1.24 the king of Ge∣zer, one:

13 * 1.25 The king of Debir, one: the king of Ge∣der, one:

14 The king of Hormah, one: the king of Arad, one:

15 * 1.26 The King of Libnah, one: the king of A∣dullam, one:

16 * 1.27 The king of Makkedah, one: the king * 1.28 of Beth-el, one:

17 The king of Tappuah, one: the king of He∣pher, one:

18 The king of Aphek, one: the king of † La∣sharon,* 1.29 one:

19 The king of Madon, one: * 1.30 the king of Ha∣zor, one:

20 The king of Shimron-meron, one: the king of Achshaph, one:

21 The king of Taanach, one: the king of Me∣giddo, one:

22 The king of Kedesh, one: the king of Jok∣neam of Carmel, one:

23 The king of Dor l 1.31, in the coast of Dor, one: the king of * 1.32 the nations of Gilgal m 1.33, one:

24. The king of Tirzah, one: all the kings thir∣ty and one n 1.34.

Notes

• a 1.1

  On the East of Iordan, called the Plain, Deut. 1. 1. and the Plains of Moab, Deut. 34. 1.
• * 1.2

  Numb. 21. 24. Deut. 3. 6.
• b 1.3

  It is not unusual even amongst us, for a River to be di∣vided between two Lords, and for their Territories or Ju∣risdictions to meet in the middle of the River: And besides, here is a very particular reason for this expression, because the city Ar, which was no part of Sihons Dominions, but belonged to the Moabites, Deut. 2. 9, 18. was in the middle of the River Arnon, Deut. 2. 36. and 3. 16. and therefore the middle of the River is most fitly and properly here men∣tioned, as the bound of Sihons Dominion on that side.
• c 1.4

  Heb. and the half Gilead, i. e. half of the Country of Gi∣lead; the particle from is not in the Original, and this doth not seem to denote the term or bound from which his Domi∣nion begun, as our Version implies, for so indeed it was not, but the place or Country, in and over which his Dominion was, which, as is here said, began at Arnon, and took in half Gilead, and ended at Iabbok, beyond which was the other half of Gilead, which belonged to Og, as is ex∣presly said, v. 5. where the words being wholly the same that are here, it is most reasonable to understand and tran∣slate them in the same manner.
• * 1.5

  Deut. 3. 17.
• d 1.6

  Which words describe the scituation not of the sea of Cinneroth, which was part of the Western border of Sihons Dominion, but of the Plain, which is here said to lye east∣ward from the sea of Cinneroth, and also eastward from the Salt Sea, as it here follows. And this was indeed the scitu∣ation of the Plains of Moab, which are here spoken of, to wit, that they lay between the two Seas, that of Cinneroth and the Salt Sea, and eastward to them both.
• e 1.7

  The Salt Sea is so called because it was a famous Plain, pleasant and fruitful, before it was turned into a Salt Sea.
• * 1.8

  Or, Teman.
• f 1.9

  Or, on, or towards the South.
• * 1.10

  Deut. 3. 17. and 4. 49.
• * 1.11

  ‡ Or, the springs of Pis∣gah, or the hill.
• * 1.12

  Deut. 1. 4.
• * 1.13

  ‡ Deut. 3. 11. Chap. 13. 12.
• g 1.14

  To wit, successively, sometimes at the one, sometimes at the other City; both being his Royal Mansions.
• h 1.15

  Of which see Deut. 3. 13. Jos. 13. 13. 2 Sam. 13. 37. and 15. 8.
• * 1.16

  Num. 21. 33.
• * 1.17

  Numb. 3•…•…. Deut. 3. 12 Chap. 13 •…•…
• * 1.18

  Chap. 1•…•…
• i 1.19

  This word here and elsewhere in Scripture notes not a Land wholly desart and uninhabited, but one thin of Inha∣bitants, as 1 King. 2. 34. and 9. 18. Mat. 3. 1, 3.
• * 1.20

  Chap. 〈◊〉〈◊〉
• * 1.21

  Chap. 〈◊〉〈◊〉
• k 1.22

  This is added to distinguish it from Ai of the Ammo∣nites, of which Ier. 49. 3.
• * 1.23

  Chap. 〈◊〉〈◊〉
• * 1.24

  Chap. 〈◊〉〈◊〉
• * 1.25

  Chap. 〈◊〉〈◊〉
• * 1.26

  Chap. 〈◊〉〈◊〉
• * 1.27

  Chap. 〈◊〉〈◊〉
• * 1.28

  Chap. 〈◊〉〈◊〉
• * 1.29

  ‡ Or, 〈◊〉〈◊〉
• * 1.30

  Chap. 〈◊〉〈◊〉
• l 1.31

  Of which Ios. 11. 2.
• * 1.32

  Gen. 〈◊〉〈◊〉
• m 1.33

  Not of that Gilgal where Io∣shua first Lodged after his passage over Iordan; where it doth not appear, that there was either King or City; but of another City of the same Name, (as was frequent in those parts) probably in Galilee towards the Sea, whither divers people might possibly resort for Trade and Mer∣chandise, over whom this was King, as formerly Tidal seems to have been, Gen. 14. 1.
• n 1.34

  Each being confined to a narrow compass, and being King only of one City or small Province belonging to it, which was by the wise and singular Providence of God, that they might be more easily and successively conquered by the Israelites one after another, as they were.