the Week of Proper 9 / Ordinary 14
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Joshua 13:18
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and Yahatz, and Kedemot, and Mefa`at,
And Jahaza, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath,
Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath,
and Jahaz, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath,
Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath,
Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath,
and Jahaz and Kedemoth and Mephaath,
Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath,
And Iahazah, and Kedemoth & Mephaath:
and Jahaz and Kedemoth and Mephaath,
Yahatz, K'demot, Mefa‘at,
And Jahzah, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath,
Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath,
And Jahaz and Kermoth and Aenath
Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath,
and Jahazah, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath;
Iahza, Kedemoth, Mephaath,
and Jahaz, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath,
And Jahaz, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath;
And Iahazah, and Redemoth, and Mephaath.
and Jahaz, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath;
And Iahazah, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath,
and Basan, and Bakedmoth, and Maephaad,
and Jahaz, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath;
Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath,
and Gesa, and Sedymoth, and Mephe,
and Jahazah, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath,
and Jahaz, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath,
And Jahaza, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath,
and Jahaz, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath,
Jahaza, Kedemoth, Mephaath,
Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath,
Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath,
and Jahaz, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath,
and Jahaz and Kedemoth and Maphaath;
And Jassa, and Cidimoth, and Mephaath,
and Jahaz, and Ked'emoth, and Meph'aath,
and Jahaz and Kedemoth and Mephaath,
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Jahaza: A city near Medeba and Dibon, afterwards given to the Levites. Joshua 21:36, Joshua 21:37, Numbers 21:23, Jahaz, 1 Chronicles 6:78, 1 Chronicles 6:79, Jahzah
Kedemoth: Supposed to have been situated east of the Arnon.
Mephaath: Situated near the desert, east of Moab. In the time of Eusebius, he says the Romans kept a garrison there.
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 2:26 - Kedemoth Isaiah 15:4 - Jahaz Jeremiah 48:21 - Jahazah
Cross-References
Then Noah built an altar to the Lord. He took some of every kind of clean animal and every kind of clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
to the site where he had built the altar. And Abram called on the name of the Lord there.
and there was quarreling between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. (At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land.)
So Abram said to Lot, “Please, let’s not have quarreling between you and me, or between your herdsmen and my herdsmen, since we are relatives.
One of the survivors came and told Abram the Hebrew, who lived near the oaks belonging to Mamre the Amorite, the brother of Eshcol and the brother of Aner. They were bound by a treaty with Abram.
The Lord appeared to Abraham at the oaks of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance of his tent during the heat of the day.
Sarah died in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.
Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.
Then Israel said to him, “Go and see how your brothers and the flocks are doing, and bring word back to me.” So he sent him from the Hebron Valley, and he went to Shechem.
They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, were living. Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And Jahazah,.... Called Jahaz, Numbers 21:23, where the battle was fought between Sihon and Israel:
and Kedemoth; near to which was a wilderness, which took its name from it, from whence Moses sent messengers with words of peace to Sihon, Deuteronomy 2:26;
and Mephaath; thought to be the Maipha of Ptolemy f; here Jerom says g, in his time was a garrison of Roman soldiers, because of the desert that was near. It was a city, with its suburbs, given to the Levites, as were the two preceding, Joshua 21:36; Adrichomius h takes it to be the same with Malle, which, Josephus says, i was called the city of the strangers.
f Geograph. l. 6. c. 7. g De loc Heb. fol. 93. D. h Theatrum Ter. Sanct. p. 179. i Antiqu. l. 12. c. 8. sect. 3.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The writer appends to the command of God Joshua 13:1-7 a statement that the other two tribes and a half had already had their inheritance marked out for them by Moses in the land east of Jordan. The boundaries of this territory as a whole are first set forth Joshua 13:8-14, and afterward the portions assigned within it to the two tribes and a half are severally described Joshua 13:15-33.
Joshua 13:14
See Deuteronomy 18:1-5 and notes.
Joshua 13:15-24
Inheritance of the tribe of Reuben. This territory was the most southerly of the trans-Jordanic possessions of Israel, and adjoined Moab, which lay only on the other side of the Arnon. Hence, the Reubenites became in after times much intermixed with the Moabites, who in fact eventually acquired much of the land, and several, if not all, of the cities here named as belonging to Reuben. This acquisition was probably assisted by the fact that the territory north of Arnon had formerly belonged to the Moabites, from whom it was wrested by the Amorites (see Numbers 21:27, etc. notes). It is not likely that the Amorite conquerors had completely extirpated the Moabite inhabitants. Hence, in the days when the Reubenites became engrossed in their pastoral pursuits, and probably not very long after the days of Joshua, the Moabites easily encroached on their inheritance, and in the end probably reoccupied nearly the whole of the ancient kingdom of Sihon (Compare Deuteronomy 33:6 note).
Joshua 13:17-21
See the marginal references for some of these names. Heshbon, Kedemoth, and Mephaath became eventually Levitical cities.
Joshua 13:21
Dukes of Sihon - Rather âvassals of Sihon,â probably those âdedicatedâ or âappointedâ with a libation.
Joshua 13:23
Jordan ... - i. e. the Jordan and its territory (compare similar expressions in Numbers 34:6; Deuteronomy 3:16). The portion of the tribe of Reuben at its northern extremity touched the Jordan; the main part of his inheritance lay on the east of the Dead Sea.
Joshua 13:25
All the cities of Gilead - i. e. of Gilead in the narrower sense, included in the territory of Sihon, and distinct from Bashan Deuteronomy 3:10.
Half the land of the children of Ammon - i. e. that half of the Ammonite territory which had been conquered by the Amorites. This, after the overthrow of Sihon, the Israelites took for their own. The land which the Ammonites still held in the days of Moses, the Israelites were not permitted to attack.
Rabbah was a border fortress, the principal stronghold of the Ammonites Numbers 21:24, and the residence of their king. It was attacked and taken by Joab 2 Samuel 11:0; 2 Samuel 12:0; 1 Chronicles 20:1, but appears in later times again as an Ammonitish city Jeremiah 49:3; Ezekiel 25:5; Amos 1:13-15. In the third century B.C. it received from Ptolemy Philadelplus the name of Philadelphia, and was in later times the seat of a Christian bishop; but has now for many centuries been in ruins, remarkable for their grandeur and extent.
Joshua 13:26
The border of Debir - Rather perhaps âthe border of Lidbir,â which is regarded as identical with the Lo-debar of 2 Samuel 9:4; 2 Samuel 17:27, one of the towns from which provisions were brought to David at Mahanaim Genesis 32:2.
Joshua 13:29-33
On the conquest of Bashan, see especially Numbers 32:33, etc. and notes.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Joshua 13:18. Jahaza — A city near Medeba and Dibon. It was given to the Levites, 1 Chronicles 6:78.
Kedemoth — Mentioned Deuteronomy 2:26; supposed to have been situated beyond the river Arnon.
Mephaath — Situated on the frontiers of Moab, on the eastern part of the desert. It was given to the Levites, Joshua 21:37.
