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Joshua 13:18
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Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath,
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 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
And Noe built an altar unto the Lord: and taking of all cattle and fowls that were clean, offered holocausts upon the altar.
In the place of the altar which he had made before, and there he called upon the name of the Lord.
Whereupon also there arose a strife between the herdsmen of Abram and of Lot. And at that time the Chanaanite and the Pherezite dwelled in that country.
Abram therefore said to Lot: Let there be no quarrel, I beseech thee, between me and thee, and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen: for we are brethren.
And behold one, that had escaped, told Abram the Hebrew, who dwelt in the vale of Mambre the Amorrhite, the brother of Escol, and the brother of Aner: for these had made a league with Abram.
And the Lord appeared to him in the vale of Mambre as he was sitting at the door of his tent, in the very heat of the day.
And she died in the city of Arbee which is Hebron, in the land of Chanaan: and Abraham came to mourn and weep for her.
And he came to Isaac his father in Mambre, the city of Arbee, this is Hebron: wherein Abraham and Isaac sojourned.
I am ready: he said to him: Go, and see if all things be well with thy brethren, and the cattle: and bring me word again what is doing. So being sent from the vale of Hebron, he came to Sichem:
(13-23) And they went up at the south side, and came to Hebron, where were Achiman and Sisai and Tholmai the sons of Enac. For Hebron was built seven years before Tanis the city of 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 “vassals of Sihon,” probably those “dedicated” or “appointed” 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 “the border of Lidbir,” 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.
