John Gill Commentary


John Gill Commentary
"And their border was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, threescore cities:" — Joshua 13:30 (ASV)
And their coast was from Mahanaim
A place in the tribe of Gad, (Joshua 13:26); which was the boundary of the half tribe that way:
all Bashan;
so famous for its oxen, and for pasturage for them, and for its oaks, called by Josephus Batanea:
all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan;
which, besides Bashan, took in the kingdom of Argob or Trachonitis, half the land of Gilead, all which was possessed by the half tribe of Manasseh: see (Deuteronomy 3:13);
and all the towns of, Jair which [are] in Bashan, threescore cities;
of Jair, and his relation to Manasseh, and of his taking these cities, and the number of them, see (Numbers 33:41) (Deuteronomy 3:4Deuteronomy 3:14).