Josue 11:16

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

Cepit itaque Josue omnem terram montanam et meridianam, terramque Gosen, et planitiem, et occidentalem plagam, montemque Israël, et campestria ejus,

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Cavete ne forte decipiatur cor vestrum, et recedatis a Domino, serviatisque diis alienis, et adoretis eos :

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Cepit itaque Iosue omnem terram hanc, montanam et Nageb terramque Gosen et Sephelam et Arabam montemque Israel et campestria eius,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

all that land: Genesis 15:18-21, Numbers 34:2-13, Deuteronomy 34:2, Deuteronomy 34:3

hills: Joshua 9:1, Joshua 12:8

the land: Joshua 10:41

the mountain: Joshua 11:21, Ezekiel 17:23, Ezekiel 36:1-3, Ezekiel 36:8

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 1:7 - in the plain Joshua 15:51 - Goshen

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So Joshua took all that land,.... The whole land of Canaan, described as follows, both as to the southern and northern parts of it:

the hills; the hill country of Judea, of which see Luke 1:39;

and all the south country; where lived the five kings; and those of other places, the account of the taking of which we have in the preceding chapter, Joshua 10:40;

and all the land of Goshen; see Joshua 10:41;

and the valley, and the plain; the low places and campaign fields which lay between the hills and mountains; particularly all the plain and campaign country near Eleutheropolis, towards the north and west, Jerom says, in his day, was called "Sephela", or "the vale" a:

and the mountain of Israel, and the valley of the same; by which may be meant Jerusalem, situated on a mountain, and is so called, Ezekiel 17:23; and its valley may be the valley of Hinnom or of Jehoshaphat, as they were after called, which were near it: some think the hill of Samaria or the mountains about that are meant.

a De loc. Heb. fol. 94. M.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joshua 11:16. The mountain of Israel, and the valley of the same — This place has given considerable trouble to commentators; and it is not easy to assign such a meaning to the place as may appear in all respects satisfactory.

1. If we consider this verse and the 21st to have been added after the times in which the kingdoms of Israel and Judah were divided, the difficulty is at once removed.

2. The difficulty will be removed if we consider that mountain and valley are put here for mountains and valleys, and that these include all mountains and valleys which were not in the lot that fell to the tribe of Judah. Or,

3. If by mountain of Israel we understand Beth-el, where God appeared to Jacob, afterwards called Israel, and promised him the land of Canaan, a part of the difficulty will be removed. But the first opinion seems best founded; for there is incontestable evidence that several notes have been added to this book since the days of Joshua. See the preface.