John Gill's Bible Commentary Ver. 8. And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, which dwelt on the other side Jordan , etc.] The kingdoms of Sihon and Og, and they fought with you; the two kings of them, and their armies: and I gave them into your hand, that ye might possess their land ; and which was now possessed by the two tribes of Reuben and Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh: and I destroyed them from before you ; the kings, their forces, and the inhabitants of their countries; the history of which see in ( Numbers 21:10-35).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-14 - We must never think our work for God done, till our life is done. If he lengthen out our days beyond what we expected, like those of Joshua, it is because he has some further service for us to do. He who aims at the same mind which was in Christ Jesus, will glory in bearing the las testimony to his Saviour's goodness, and in telling to all around, the obligations with which the unmerited goodness of God has bound him. The assembly came together in a solemn religious manner. Joshua spake to them in God's name, and as from him. His sermon consists of doctrin and application. The doctrinal part is a history of the great thing God had done for his people, and for their fathers before them. The application of this history of God's mercies to them, is an exhortatio to fear and serve God, in gratitude for his favour, and that it migh be continued.
Original Hebrew ואבאה935 אתכם853 אל413 ארץ776 האמרי567 היושׁב3427 בעבר5676 הירדן3383 וילחמו3898 אתכם854 ואתן5414 אותם853 בידכם3027 ותירשׁו3423 את853 ארצם776 ואשׁמידם8045 מפניכם׃6440
