John Gill's Bible Commentary Ver. 1. Now these [are] the kings of the land which the children of Israel smote , etc.] In the days of Moses, as Jarchi remarks, and as it clearly appears from what follows: and possessed, their land on the other side Jordan toward the rising of the sun ; on the east of the land of Canaan: from the river Arnon unto the mount Hermon, and all the plain on the east ; Arnon was the border of Moab between them and the Amorites, ( Numbers 21:13); and from hence to Hermon, a mountain adjoining to Lebanon, lay the country of the two kings of the Amorites after mentioned, ( Deuteronomy 3:8,9); and the plain on the east were the plains of Moab, which lay to the east of Jordan.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-6 - Fresh mercies must not drown the remembrance of former mercies, no must the glory of the present instruments of good to the churc diminish the just honour of those who went before them, since God is the same who wrought by both. Moses gave to one part of Israel a very rich and fruitful country, but it was on the outside of Jordan. Joshu gave to all Israel the holy land, within Jordan. So the law has give to some few of God's spiritual Israel worldly blessings, earnests of good things to come; but our Lord Jesus, the true Joshua, provided for all the children of promise spiritual blessings, and the heavenl Canaan.
Original Hebrew ואלה428 מלכי4428 הארץ776 אשׁר834 הכו5221 בני1121 ישׂראל3478 וירשׁו3423 את853 ארצם776 בעבר5676 הירדן3383 מזרחה4217 השׁמשׁ8121 מנחל5158 ארנון769 עד5704 הר2022 חרמון2768 וכל3605 הערבה6160 מזרחה׃4217
