Commentary on Joshua - Keil & Delitzsch - David Cox

Keil and Delitzsch <strong>Commentary</strong> on the Old Testament
unknown; the lamed , however, is not to be taken as a prefix, but forms part of the
word. J. D. Michaelis and Knobel suppose it to be the same as Lo-debar in 2 Sam 9:4-
5; 17:27, a place from which provisions were brought to David at Mahanaim on his
flight from Absalom, and which is to be sought for on the east of Mahanaim.
Joshua 13:27-28
And in the valley, Betharam, and Bethnimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest
of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, Jordan and his border, even unto the
edge of the sea of Chinnereth on the other side Jordan eastward.
On the north, the territory of Gad seems to have extended to the Jabbok, and only to
have stretched beyond the Jabbok at Mahanaim, which formed the boundary of half-
Manasseh, according to v. 30. In the valley of the Jordan, on the other hand, the
boundary reached to the Sea of Galilee. "The valley" is the valley of the Jordan, or the
Arabah from Wady Hesbân above the Dead Sea up to the Sea of Galilee, along the
east side of the Jordan, which belonged to the kingdom of Sihon (Josh 12:3; Deut
3:17). The northern boundary of the tribe of Reuben must have touched the Jordan in
the neighbourhood of the Wady Hesbân. In the Jordan valley were Beth-haram , the
future Libias , and present er Rameh (see at Num 32:36); Beth-nimra , according to
the Onom. five Roman miles to the north, the present ruin of Nimrein (see at Num
32:36); Succoth , according to the Onom. trans Jordanem in parte Scythopoleos (see
at Gen 33:17); Zaphon (i.e., north), probably not far from the southern extremity of
the Sea of Galilee. "The rest of the kingdom of Sihon," the other part having been
given to the Reubenites (v. 21).
Joshua 13:29-31
And Moses gave inheritance unto the half tribe of Manasseh: and this was the
possession of the half tribe of the children of Manasseh by their families.
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