Commentary on Joshua - Keil & Delitzsch - David Cox

Keil and Delitzsch <strong>Commentary</strong> on the Old Testament
other side Jordan toward the rising of the sun, from the river Arnon unto mount
Hermon, and all the plain on the east:
Verse 1-6. List of the kings whom the Israelites smote, and whose land they took, on
the other side of the Jordan , - namely, the land by the brook Arnon (Mojeb; see Num
21:13) to Hermon (Jebel es Sheikh, Deut 3:8), and the whole of the eastern Arabah
(the valley of the Jordan on the eastern side of the river).
Verse 2,3. On Sihon and his kingdom, see Num 21:24; Deut 2:36; 3:16-17. "Aroër on
the Arnon:" the present ruins of Araayr , on the northern bank of the Mojeb (see Num
32:34). hanachal (OT:5158) wªtowkª (OT:8432), "and (from) the middle of the valley
onwards:" i.e., according to the parallel passages in Josh 13:9,16, and Deut 2:36,
from the town in the Arnon valley, the city of Moab mentioned in Num 22:36, viz.,
Ar or Areopolis (see at Num 21:15) in the neighbourhood of Aroër, which is
mentioned as the exclusive terminus a quo of the land taken by the Israelites along
with the inclusive terminus Aroër. "Half-Gilead," i.e., the mountainous district on the
south side of the Jabbok (see at Deut 3:10), "to the river Jabbok," i.e., the upper
Jabbok, the present Nahr Ammân (see at Num 21:24).
Verse 3. "And (over) the Arabah , etc., Sihon reigned," i.e., over the eastern side of
the Ghor, between the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea (see at Deut 3:17). "By the
way to Bethjeshimoth, and towards the south below the slopes of Pisgah" (see at Num
21:15 and 27:12), i.e., to the north-eastern border of the desert by the Dead Sea (see
at Num 22:1).
Verse 4-5. "And the territory of Og," sc., they took possession of (v. 1). On Og,
vid., Deut 3:11; and on his residences, Ashtaroth (probably to be seen in Tell
Ashtereh ) and Edrei (now Draa or Dêra ), see at Gen 14:5 and Num 21:33. On his
territory, see Deut 3:10,13-14.
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