Commentary on Joshua - Keil & Delitzsch - David Cox

Keil and Delitzsch <strong>Commentary</strong> on the Old Testament
the Amoritish table-land, a tract of land for the most part destitute of trees, stretching
from the Arnon to Heshbon, and towards the north-east to Rabbath-Ammân (see at
Deut 3:10), which is called in Num 21:20 the field of Moab Medeba , now called
Medaba (see at Num 21:30). Dibon , now a ruin called Dibân , to the north of Arnon
(see at Num 21:20). - V. 10, as in Josh 12:2.
Verse 11-13. Gilead is the whole country of that name on both sides of the Jabbok
(see at Josh 12:2 and Deut 3:10), the present Belka and Jebel Ajlun, for the
description of which see the remarks at Num 32:1. "The territory of the Geshurites
and Maachathites" is referred to in Josh 12:5 as the boundary of the kingdom of Og,
and in Deut 3:14 as the boundary of the land which was taken by Jair the Manassite;
here it is included in the inheritance of the tribes on the other side of the Jordan, but it
was never really taken possession of by the Israelites, and (according to v. 13) it had
probably never been really subject to king Og. The other notices in vv. 11 and 12 are
the same as in Josh 12:4-5.
Verse 14. The tribe of Levi was to receive no land, but the firings of Jehovah, i.e., the
offerings, including the tithes and first-fruits (Lev 27:30-32, compared with Num
18:21-32), were to be its inheritance; so that the God of Israel himself is called the
inheritance of Levi in v. 33 as in Num 18:20, to which the words "as He said unto
them" refer (see the commentary on Num 18:20).
Joshua 13:15-18
And Moses gave unto the tribe of the children of Reuben inheritance according to
their families.
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