Albert Barnes Commentary Joshua 11:3

Albert Barnes Commentary

Joshua 11:3

1798–1870
Presbyterian
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes Commentary

Joshua 11:3

1798–1870
Presbyterian
SCRIPTURE

"to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the hill-country, and the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpah." — Joshua 11:3 (ASV)

Hermon—See (Deuteronomy 3:9) note.

The land of Mizpeh—or Mizpah, “the land of the watch-tower.” The locality is probably identified as a plain stretching at the foot of Hermon southwestward, from Hasbeya, toward the Bahr el Huleh. In a land abounding in striking points of view like Palestine, the name Mizpah was naturally, like “Belle Vue” among us, bestowed on many places. The Mizpeh mentioned here must not be confounded with the Mizpeh of Gilead (Joshua 13:26 and Judges 11:29), nor with the Mizpeh of Judah (Joshua 15:38), nor with that of Moab (1 Samuel 22:3).