the Week of Proper 13 / Ordinary 18
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约书亚记 13:2
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就 是 非 利 士 人 的 全 境 和 基 述 人 的 全 地 。
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the land: Exodus 23:29-31, Deuteronomy 11:23, Deuteronomy 11:24, Judges 3:1
borders: Genesis 10:14, Genesis 26:1, Joel 3:4
Geshuri: Joshua 13:11, Joshua 13:13, Joshua 12:5, 1 Samuel 27:8, 2 Samuel 3:3, 2 Samuel 13:37, 2 Samuel 13:38, 2 Samuel 15:8
Reciprocal: Joshua 23:4 - Behold 2 Chronicles 9:26 - river Obadiah 1:19 - the plain
Cross-References
So Abram, his wife, and Lot left Egypt, taking everything they owned, and traveled to southern Canaan.
He left southern Canaan and went back to Bethel where he had camped before, between Bethel and Ai,
We should separate. The whole land is there in front of you. If you go to the left, I will go to the right. If you go to the right, I will go to the left."
Lot looked all around and saw the whole Jordan Valley and that there was much water there. It was like the Lord 's garden, like the land of Egypt in the direction of Zoar. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
Abram lived in the land of Canaan, but Lot lived among the cities in the Jordan Valley, very near to Sodom.
Now the people of Sodom were very evil and were always sinning against the Lord .
The Lord has greatly blessed my master in everything, and he has become a rich man. The Lord has given him many flocks of sheep, herds of cattle, silver and gold, male and female servants, camels, and horses.
but remember the Lord your God! It is he who gives you the power to become rich, keeping the agreement he promised to your ancestors, as it is today.
The Lord makes some people poor, and others he makes rich. He makes some people humble, and others he makes great.
He owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred teams of oxen, and five hundred female donkeys. He also had a large number of servants. He was the greatest man among all the people of the East.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
This [is] the land that yet remaineth,.... Unconquered and not enjoyed, namely, what is after described; and this account is given for Joshua's information, that he might know what to divide, and for the people of Israel's sake, that they might know what they had a right to a claim upon; what they should endeavour to possess themselves of, and what the Lord would deliver into their hands, provided they were obedient to his will, for, because they were not, hence many of these places never came into their possession, though divided to them by lot:
all the borders of the Philistines; whose country bordered and lay upon the shores of the Mediterranean sea, in the southwest of the land of Canaan:
and all Geshuri; the principal city belonging to it is said to be in Syria, 2 Samuel 15:8; and had a king over it in the times of David, 2 Samuel 3:3; and seems never to have come into the hands of the Israelites.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
This and Joshua 13:3 name the still unconquered districts in the southern half of the land, Joshua 13:4-6 those in the north.
Geshuri - A district on the south of Philistia, the inhabitants of which are again named in 1 Samuel 27:8; but are not to be confounded with the land of the Geshurites mentioned in Joshua 13:13; Joshua 12:5.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Joshua 13:2. The borders of the Philistines, and all Geshuri — The borders of the Philistines may mean the land which they possessed on the sea-coast, southwest of the land of Canaan. There were several places named Geshuri, but that spoken of here was probably the region on the south of Canaan, towards Arabia, or towards Egypt. - Calmet. Cellarius supposes it to have been a country in the vicinity of the Amalekites.
