Bible Commentaries

Genesis 24:3 — And I will make thee swear by the Lord, the God of heaven, and the God of earth,.... The Maker and possessor of heaven and earth, by whom Abraham used to swear whenever he did, and by whom only men should swear, see Genesis 14:22. The Targum of Jonathan

Genesis 26:34 — And Esau was forty years old,.... The same age his father was of when he married, Genesis 25:20: when he took to wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite; Josephus m makes her to be the same with Aholibamah; but her father's name was Zibeon, and

Genesis 47:15 — And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan,.... It had been all spent in the third, fourth, and fifth years of the famine; for it seems to be at the end of the fifth, or beginning of the sixth year of the famine, that this

Exodus 22:20 — He that sacrificeth unto [any] god,.... To Elohim, to strange gods, to the idols of the people, as the Targum of Jonathan; to the Egyptian deities, to the gods of the Moabites, Amorites, Edomites, Canaanites, Philistines, or any other: Aben Ezra says

1 Kings 18:10 — As the Lord thy God liveth,.... Which is the form of an oath he thought fit to make, to ascertain the truth of what he was about to say: there is no nation or kingdom, whither my lord hath not sent to seek thee; which is either an hyperbolical expression,

Leviticus 20:23 — And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation which I cast out before you,.... Nation seems to be put for nations, for there were seven nations cast out for them; though the Canaanites may be intended, being a general name for the whole: some think

Numbers 23:24 — Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion,.... Or rather, "as the lioness" n, which, as Aelianus says o, is the strongest and most warlike beast, the most fierce and furious, as is believed both by Greeks and Barbarians; and he mentions the heroism

Deuteronomy 31:8 — And the Lord, he [it is] that doth go before thee,.... The Word of the Lord, his Shechinah, according to the above Targum, and so in the next clause; the same that brought Israel out of Egypt, had gone before them in the wilderness, and now would go

Deuteronomy 7:22 — And the Lord thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little,.... Which is observed for their encouragement, who seeing that all were not destroyed at once, might fear the work would never be thoroughly accomplished; see Exodus 23:30, thou

Deuteronomy 9 overview — INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 9 In this chapter the Israelites are assured of the ejection of the Canaanites, though so great and mighty, to make room for them, Deuteronomy 9:1, and they are cautioned not to attribute this to their own righteousness,

Joshua 1:6 — Be strong, and of good courage,.... The same exhortation Moses gave him, Deuteronomy 31:7; and is afterwards repeated in this chapter, as being of great moment and importance, as it is in the general of an army to show greatness and strength of mind,

Joshua 10:37 — And they took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof,.... For though the king of Hebron was one of the kings that were taken in the cave of Makkedah, and hanged; yet before Joshua came up to it, they had set up another king

Joshua 10:41 — regresó en su camino hacia su campamento en Gilgal, habiendo conquistado toda la parte sur del país. Este país de Goshen no es así en la tierra de Egipto, ya que Kimchi observa con razón. El obispo Cumberland M es de opinión, que los pastores fenicios o canaanites, que fueron expulsados ​​de Egipto antes de su expulsión, habitaron esa parte de Egipto llamada Goshen, que los israelitas algunos años después se volvieron; y cuando esos pastores fueron expulsados, llegaron a esta parte de la tierra de Canaán,

Joshua 11:3 — [And to] the Canaanites on the east and on the west,.... That is, that particular nation of the seven so called, part of which dwelt in the eastern part of the land, by the dead sea, and by the coast of Jordan, Numbers 13:29; and others dwelt on the

Joshua 18:3 — And Joshua said unto the children of Israel,.... To those of the seven tribes: how long [are] you slack to go to possess the land which the Lord God of your fathers hath given you? not that they might have taken possession of it of themselves, without

Joshua 22 overview — INTRODUCTION TO JOSHUA 22 The war with the Canaanites being ended, Joshua called to him the two tribes of Reuben and Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh, who came over Jordan with him to assist in it, and commended them for their obedience to Moses

Joshua 22:2 — And said unto them, ye have kept all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you,.... Which was, that they should leave their wives and children, and flocks, and herds, behind them in the land of Gilead, and pass over Jordan, with their brethren

Joshua 24:11 — And ye went over Jordan,.... In a miraculous manner, the waters parting to make way for the host of Israel: and came unto Jericho; the first city of any size and strength in the land, which was about seven or eight miles from Jordan; :-; and the men

Judges 2:3 — Wherefore I also said,.... Supposing, or on condition of their being guilty of the above things, which was foreseen they would: I will not drive them out from before you; the seven nations of the Canaanites entirely, and which accounts for the various

Judges 5:14 — Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against Amalek,.... In this and some following verses, Deborah makes mention of the tribes that were siding and assisting in this war, and of those that were not; and begins with Ephraim, where she herself dwelt,