Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Joshua 13:28
This [is] the inheritance of the children of Gad after their families, the cities, and their villages.
28. This is the inheritance ] Thus, speaking roughly, the country allotted to Gad appears to have lain chiefly about the centre of the land east of the Jordan. Commencing at or about Heshbon on the south, it extended to the ancient sanctuary of Mahanaim on the north; on the east the furthest landmark was “Aroer that faces Rabbah;” while the Jordan formed the boundary on the west. The character of the tribe was throughout fierce and warlike (Gen 49:19), “strong men of might, men of war for the battle, that could handle shield and buckler, their faces the faces of lions, and like roes upon the mountains for swiftness” (1Ch 5:18; 1Ch 12:8). In the finest region south of the Jabbok Gad “dwelt as a lion” (Deu 33:20), and that the civilisation attained by this tribe was of a higher order than “the mere fierceness necessary to repel the attacks of the plunderers of the desert” comes out in ( a) the history of Jephthah (Jdg 11:1); of ( b) the eleven valiant chiefs who crossed the fords of Jordan in flood-time to join David “their faces like the faces of lions, as swift as the gazelles upon the mountains” (1Ch 12:8-15); in ( c) the loyalty and generosity of Barzillai (2Sa 19:32-39); ( d) the marvellous career of Elijah “the Tishbite, of the inhabitants of Gilead” (1Ki 17:1).
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
This [is] the inheritance of the children of Gad, after their families,…. As described in Jos 13:27:
the cities and their villages; the cities given them, some of which are mentioned by name, and the villages adjacent and belonging to them were included in them.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Jos 13:28 This [is] the inheritance of the children of Gad after their families, the cities, and their villages.
Ver. 28. See Trapp on “ Jos 13:18 “