Nehemiah 9:22

22 "You gave them kingdoms and nations; you gave them more land. and the country of Og king 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 gave them manna to eat and water when they were thirsty.
21 You took care of them for forty years in the desert; they needed nothing. Their clothes did not wear out, and their feet did not swell.
22 "You gave them kingdoms and nations; you gave them more land. and the country of Og king of Bashan.
23 You made their children as many as the stars in the sky, and you brought them into the land that you told their fathers to enter and take over.
24 So their children went into the land and took over. The Canaanites lived there, but you defeated them for our ancestors. You handed over to them the Canaanites, their kings, and the people of the land. Our ancestors could do what they wanted with them.
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