| Douay RheimsDouay-Rheims Bible -- The New Testament was published at Rheims (1582), the Old Testament at Douay (1609). The Douay Rheims served as the main English bible for the Catholic world for centuries. Bishop Challoner updated it extensively mid-18th century. Biblical scholar Rev. George Haydock compiled a Catholic commentary mid-19th century. This text set is from an approved 1914 U.S. printing. | Haydock CommentaryHaydock Catholic Bible Commentary - based on the Douay-Rheims Bible; originally compiled by Catholic priest and biblical scholar Rev. George Leo Haydock (1774-1849). |
| 1 These are the kings, whom the children of Israel slew and possessed their land beyond the Jordan towards the rising of the sun, from the torrent Arnon unto mount Hermon, and all the east country that looketh towards the wilderness. | Wilderness. Heb. "all the plain country ( Arabia ) on the east."
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| 2 Sehon king of the Amorrhites, who dwelt in Hesebon, and had dominion from Aroer, which is seated upon the bank of the torrent Arnon, and of the middle part in the valley, and of half Galaad, as far as the torrent Jaboc, which is the border of the children of Ammon. | Galaad. Sehon occupied from the middle of the torrent Arnon, as far as half of the mountains of Galaad, and the torrent Jaboc. C. --- Og possessed the other half of the mountains northward, while the Ammonites had the eastern parts. H.
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| 3 And from the wilderness, to the sea of Ceneroth towards the east, and to the sea of the wilderness, which is the most salt sea, on the east side by the way that leadeth to Bethsimoth: and on the south side that lieth under Asedoth, Phasga. | Bethsimoth is ten miles from Jericho, (Eus.) near the Dead Sea, in the plains of Moab. C. --- Phasga. Asedoth lay at the foot of this mountain, being well supplied with water. Subjacet Acedoth usque Phasga, the southern limits of Sehon's dominions had "abundance of springs, as far as Phasga." H.
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| 4 The border of Og the king of Basan, of the remnant of the Raphaims who dwelt in Astaroth, and in Edrai, and had dominion in mount Hermon, and in Salecha, and in all Basan, unto the borders | Og. See Num. xxi. 33. Deut. iii. 11.
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| 5 Of Gessuri and Machati, and of half Galaad: the borders of Sehon the king of Hesebon. | |
| 6 Moses the servant of the Lord, and the children of Israel slew them, and Moses delivered their land in possession to the Rubenites, and Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasses. | |
| 7 These are the kings of the land, whom Josue and the children of Israel slew beyond the Jordan on the west side from Baalgad in the held of Libanus, unto the mount, part of which goeth up into Seir: and Josue delivered it in possession to the tribes of Israel, to every one their divisions, | Seir. The same expression occurs, C. xi. 17. Heb. "from Baalgad, in the vale of Libanus, even unto Mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir." H. --- Halak means, "bald or naked." It is not know what mountain it denotes. Josue, (C.) or the Israelites, (H.) conquered "all the country beyond the Jordan, on the north from Baalgad, at the foot of Libanus, and from Hermon, where these mountains meet, as far as the mountains of separation," which divide the country of Chanaan from that of Seir, on the south of Judea. C. --- Baalgad was situated on the north western borders of this territory, not of the Jordan. H.
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| 8 As well in the mountains as in the plains and the champaign countries. In Asedoth, and in the wilderness, and in the south was the Hethite and the Amorrhite, the Chanaanite and the Pherezite, the Hevite and the Jebusite. | Asedoth, or "in the springs," or valleys, v. 3.
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| 9 The king of Jericho one: the king of Hai, which is on the side of Bethel, one: | |
| 10 The king of Jerusalem one, the king of Hebron one. | |
| 11 The king of Jerimoth one, the king of Lachis one, | |
| 12 The king of Eglon one, the king of Gazer one, | |
| 13 The king of Dabir one, the king of Gader one, | |
| 14 The king of Herma one, the king of Hered one, | Herma, "a curse," where the Israelites defeated king Arad. Num. xiv. 45. and xxi. 3.
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| 15 The king of Lebna one, the king of Odullam one, | Odullam, ten miles east of Eleutheropolis, and famous for the retreat of David. C.
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| 16 The king of Maceda one, the king of Bethel one, | Bethel. Josue perhaps slew the king, but did not take the city. Judg. i. 22. M.
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| 17 The king of Taphua one, the king of Opher one, | |
| 18 The king of Aphec one, the king of Saron one, | Aphec. A place of this name was in the tribe of Aser, another in that of Juda. --- Saron. Heb. "Lasharon;" probably Sarona, (Acts ix. 35,) or a canton near Joppe. Euseb.
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| 19 The king of Madon one, the king of Asor one, | Madon, or Maron, Sept. C. xi. 1. This place is joined with Semeron, in Heb. (v. 20,) improperly. Perhaps it may be the Meros, (Judg. v. 23,) or Maronia, a city of Phœnicia.
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| 20 The king of Semeron one, the king of Achsaph one, | |
| 21 The king of Thenac one, the king of Megeddo one, | Thenac, a city of the Levites, but seized afterwards by the Chanaanites. Judg. i. 27. It was near the town of Legion, built by the Romans. --- Mageddo, where Josias was overcome, 2 Par. xxxv. 22. C.
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| 22 The king of Cades one, the king of Jachanan of Carmel one, | Jachanan was near Mount Carmel. Sometimes Josue specifies both the city and the canton, where it was situated; at other times he only mentions the latter, as in the following verse.
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| 23 The king of Dor, and of the province of Dor one, the king of the nations of Galgal one, | Galgal, not where the Israelites had encamped, but that part which was afterwards called the Galilee of the Gentiles, in some corner of which the king in question had fixed his residence. For we cannot suppose that he ruled over all that country, extending from Tyre to beyond the Jordan. His people might probably be a mixed multitude of various nations, as Strabo (xvi.) observes, that many parts of Palestine were peopled by men of this description.
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| 24 The king of Thersa one: all the kings thirty and one. |
Thersa.
Here the kings of Israel kept their court, till Amri built Samaria, (C.) about nine miles more to the north. Brocard. ---
One.
The two kings slain by Moses (W.) are not included. M.
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