Nehemiah 9:22

22 You gave them kingdoms and peoples, and assigned to them every side. They took possession of the land of King Sihon of Heshbon and the land of King Og of Bashan.

Nehemiah 9:22 Meaning and Commentary

Nehemiah 9:22

Moreover, thou gavest them kingdoms and nations
The two kingdoms of Sihon and Og, and the seven nations of Canaan:

and didst divide them into corners;
or "corner"; into every corner of the land of Canaan, so that they possessed the whole of it, a few cities excepted; Jarchi interprets it of one corner, that they might not be mixed with the people of the land, but be all together in one place; but Aben Ezra understands it of the Canaanites, of their being divided and scattered into corners, when they fled from the Israelites; but the former sense seems best:

so they possessed the land of Sihon, and the land of the king of
Heshbon;
or "eren", or "namely" F26, "the land of the king of Heshbon"; for Sihon was king of Heshbon, and so the land the same:

and the land of Og king of Bashan;
those lands both lay on the other side Jordan, and were possessed by the tribes of Reuben and Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh.


FOOTNOTES:

F26 So Piscator, Patrick, Rambachius.

Nehemiah 9:22 In-Context

20 You gave your good spirit to teach them. You didn't withhold your manna from them, and you gave them water for their thirst.
21 You kept them alive for forty years— they lacked nothing in the wilderness! Their clothes didn't wear out, and their feet didn't swell.
22 You gave them kingdoms and peoples, and assigned to them every side. They took possession of the land of King Sihon of Heshbon and the land of King Og of Bashan.
23 You multiplied their descendants as the stars of heaven. You brought them into the land that you had told their ancestors to enter and possess.
24 So the descendants went in and possessed the land. Before them, you subdued the Canaanites who inhabited the land. You also handed over to them their kings and the neighboring peoples, to do with as they wished.

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