Joshua 10:41

41 Yehoshua struck them from Kadesh-Barnea even to `Aza, and all the country of Goshen, even to Giv`on.

Joshua 10:41 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 10:41

And Joshua smote them, from Kadeshbarnea
Which lay to the south of the land of Canaan, ( Numbers 13:17 Numbers 13:26 ) ( 32:8 ) ( 34:4 ) ;

even unto Gaza,
which lay to the southwest, and was one of the five principalities of the Philistines; of which city (See Gill on Amos 1:7); and (See Gill on Acts 8:26);

and all the country of Goshen, even unto Gibeon;
to which he returned back in his way to his camp at Gilgal, having conquered all the southern part of the country. This country of Goshen is not that in the land of Egypt, as Kimchi rightly remarks. Bishop Cumberland ^F13 is of opinion, that the Phoenician or Canaanitish pastors, who were driven out of Egypt before their expulsion, inhabited that part of Egypt called Goshen, which the Israelites some years after dwelt in; and when those shepherds were driven out, they came into this part of the land of Canaan, and called it after the name of the country they left in Egypt; and might perhaps the rather choose to give it this name, because of the goodness and fruitfulness of it, in which it resembled the country they had formerly dwelt in.

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FOOTNOTES:

F13 Remarks on the History of Sanchoniatho, p. 380, 381.

Joshua 10:41 In-Context

39 and he took it, and the king of it, and all the cities of it; and they struck them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls who were therein; he left none remaining: as he had done to Hevron, so he did to Devir, and to the king of it; as he had done also to Livna, and to the king of it.

40 So Yehoshua struck all the land, the hill-country, and the South, and the lowland, and the slopes, and all their kings: he left none remaining, but he utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the LORD, the God of Yisra'el, commanded.

41 Yehoshua struck them from Kadesh-Barnea even to `Aza, and all the country of Goshen, even to Giv`on.

42 All these kings and their land did Yehoshua take at one time, because the LORD, the God of Yisra'el, fought for Yisra'el.

43 Yehoshua returned, and all Yisra'el with him, to the camp to Gilgal.