Commentary on Joshua - Keil & Delitzsch - David Cox

Keil and Delitzsch <strong>Commentary</strong> on the Old Testament
14:3,8) the vale of Siddim, a valley running down on the eastern side of the Dead
Sea. Seetzen conjectures that the town referred to is the present ruin of Sará , on the
south of Zerka Maein. - Beth-peor , opposite to Jericho, six Roman miles higher than
(to the east of) Libias: see at Num 23:28. The "slopes of Pisgah" (Josh 12:3; Deut
3:17): to the south of the former, on the north-eastern shore of the Dead Sea (see at
Num 27:12).
Beth-jeshimoth (Josh 12:3), in the Ghor el Seisabân, on the north-east side of the
Dead Sea (see at Num 22:1). In v. 21a, the places which Reuben received in addition
to those mentioned by name are all summed up in the words, "and all the (other)
towns of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon," sc., so far as it extended over the
plain. These limitations of the words are implied in the context: the first in the fact
that towns in the plain are mentioned in v. 17; the second in the fact that, according to
v. 27, "the rest of the kingdom of Sihon," i.e., the northern portion of it, was given to
the Gadites. The allusion to Sihon induced the author to mention his defeat again; see
at Num 31, where the five Midianitish vassals who were slain with Sihon are noticed
in v. 8, and the death of Balaam is also mentioned. "Dukes of Sihon," properly vassals
of Sihon; nªciykiym does not signify anointed, however, but means literally poured
out, i.e., cast, moulded, enfeoffed. The word points to the "creation of a prince by the
communication or pouring in of power" ( Gusset, s. v. ).
Joshua 13:23
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