Joshua 12:6

Them did Moses the servant of the LORD and the children of Israel smite: and Moses the servant of the LORD gave it for a possession unto the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh.

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Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
Moses	מֹשֶׁ֧ה mo.Sheh	H4872	Mosheh · proper noun, a man's name
servant	עֶֽבֶד 'e.ved-	H5650	a servant · noun, common masculine singular construct
LORD	יְהוָ֛ה Yah.weh	H3068	Jehovah · proper noun, a title
children	וּבְנֵ֥י u.ve.Nei	H1121	a son (as a builder of the family name) · conjunction + noun, common masculine plural construct
Israel	יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל Yis.ra.'El	H3478	Jisrael · proper noun, a place name
smite	הִכּ֑וּם hi.Kum	H5221	to strike (lightly or severely · verb, hiphil perfect, 3rd person common plural + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
Moses	מֹשֶׁ֨ה mo.Sheh	H4872	Mosheh · proper noun, a man's name
servant	עֶֽבֶד 'e.ved-	H5650	a servant · noun, common masculine singular construct
LORD	יְהוָ֜ה Yah.weh	H3068	Jehovah · proper noun, a title
gave	וַֽ֠יִּתְּנָהּ Vai.yi.te.nah	H5414	to give · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular + pronominal suffix, 3rd person feminine singular
possession	יְרֻשָּׁ֗ה ye.ru.Shah	H3425	something occupied · noun, common feminine singular absolute
Reubenites	לָרֻֽאוּבֵנִי֙ la.ru.'u.ve.Ni	H7206	a Reubenite or descendant of Reuben · preposition with the article + noun, gentilic masculine singular absolute
Gadites	וְלַגָּדִ֔י ve.la.ga.Di	H1425	a Gadite (collectively) or descendants of Gad · conjunction + preposition with the article + noun, gentilic masculine singular absolute
half	וְלַחֲצִ֖י ve.la.cha.Tzi	H2677	the half or middle · conjunction + preposition + noun, common masculine singular construct
tribe	שֵׁ֥בֶט She.vet	H7626	a scion · noun, common masculine singular construct
Manasseh	הַֽמְנַשֶּֽׁה Ham.na.Sheh	H4519	Menashsheh · definite article + noun, gentilic both genders singular absolute

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Numbers 32:33 And Moses gave unto them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and unto half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph,…
Numbers 21:24-35 And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from Arnon unto Jabbok, even unto the children of Ammon: for the bor…
Numbers 32:29 And Moses said unto them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over Jordan, every man armed to battle, befor…
Deuteronomy 3:11-17 For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the child…
Luke 22:29-42 And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me;
Joshua 13:8-32 With whom the Reubenites and the Gadites have received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond Jordan eastward, even as Moses the s…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Joshua 12:1-6

Joshua, or whoever else is the historian before he comes to sum up the new conquests Israel had made, in these verses receives their former conquests in Moses's time, under whom they became masters of the great and potent kingdoms of Sihon and Og. Note, Fresh mercies must not drown the remembrance of former mercies, nor must the glory of the present instruments of good to the church be suffered to eclipse and diminish the just honour of those who have gone before them, and who were the blessings and ornaments of their day. Joshua's services and achievements are confessedly great, but let not those under Moses be overlooked and forgotten, since God was the same who wrought both, and both put…

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Adam Clarke on Joshua 12:5

The border of the Geshurites - The country of Bashan, in the days of Moses and Joshua, extended from the river Jabbok on the south to the frontiers of the Geshurites and Maachathites on the north, to the foot of the mountains of Hermon.

John Gill on Joshua 12:6

Them did Moses the servant of the Lord, and the children of Israel, smite,.... That is, the inhabitants of those kingdoms they smote with the edge of the sword, and took possession of them, the history of which see in Numbers 21:1, and Moses the servant of the Lord gave it; the whole dominion of the two kings before mentioned: for a possession unto the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh: of which grant, and the conditions of it, see Numbers 32:1.

John Calvin on Joshua 12:1–end

NOW these are the kings, etc This chapter does not need a lengthened exposition, as it only enumerates the kings of whose territories the Israelites gained possession. Two of them are beyond the Jordan, Og and Sihon, whose rule was extensive; in the land of Canaan there are thirty-one. But though each of those now summarily mentioned was previously given more in detail, there is very good reason for here placing before our eyes as it were a living picture of the goodness of God, proving that there had been a complete ratification and performance of the covenant made with Abraham as given in the words, "Unto thy seed will I give this land." (Genesis 12:7; Genesis 13:15; Genesis 15:18) This li…

Dictionary and topics

Chinnereth — Lyre, the singular form of the word (Deut. 3:17; Josh. 19:35), which is also used in the plural form, Chinneroth, the name of a fenced city which stood near the shore of the lake of Galilee, a little…
City — The earliest mention of city-building is that of Enoch, which was built by Cain (Gen. 4:17). After the confusion of tongues, the descendants of Nimrod founded several cities (10:10-12). Next, we have…
Bashan · east of the Jordan River — east of the Jordan River
Canaan · After the conquest by Joshua — After the conquest by Joshua
Og · Land of, given to the tribes of Gad, Reuben, and Manasseh — Land of, given to the tribes of Gad, Reuben, and Manasseh

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Joshua 12:6

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Joshua 12:1-6

Adam Clarke on Joshua 12:5

John Gill on Joshua 12:6

John Calvin on Joshua 12:1–end

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Joshua 12:6

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Joshua 12:1-6

Adam Clarke on Joshua 12:5

John Gill on Joshua 12:6

John Calvin on Joshua 12:1–end

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Joshua 12:1-6

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Joshua 12:6

Rashi on Joshua 12:5