Joshua 10:41

41 Joshua struck them from Kadesh Barnea to Gaza, and all the land of Goshen up to Gibeon;

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 captured it and its king and all its cities, and they struck them with {the the edge of the sword}, and they utterly destroyed all the people that [were] in it; he left behind no survivor, just as he had done to Hebron. Thus he did to Debir and its king what he had done to Libnah and its king.

40 So Joshua struck all the land--the hill country, the Negev, the Shephelah, and the slopes--and all their kings; he left behind no survivor, and {all that breathed} he utterly destroyed as Yahweh the God of Israel commanded.

41 Joshua struck them from Kadesh Barnea to Gaza, and all the land of Goshen up to Gibeon;

42 all of these kings and their land Joshua captured at one time, because Yahweh the God of Israel fought for Israel.

43 And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp at Gilgal.