Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Joshua 12:8
In the mountains, and in the valleys, and in the plains, and in the springs, and in the wilderness, and in the south country; the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites:
The wilderness: this word here and elsewhere in Scripture notes not a land wholly desert and uninhabited, but one thin of inhabitants, as 1Ki 2:34; 9:18; Mat 3:1,3.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
In the mountains, and in the valleys, and in the plains, and in the springs, and in the wilderness, and in the south country,…. Which is a description of the whole land of Canaan; some parts of which were hills and mountains, others vales and champaign fields; others were dry and barren, and others well watered; some part of it lay to the north, as towards Lebanon, and others to the south, towards Seir:
the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; which were the nations that inhabited the land of Canaan before it was taken and possessed by the Israelites.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Jos 12:8 In the mountains, and in the valleys, and in the plains, and in the springs, and in the wilderness, and in the south country; the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites:
Ver. 8. See Trapp on “ Jos 12:7 “
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
mountains = hill country.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
the mountains: Jos 10:40, Jos 11:16
the Hittites: Jos 9:1, Gen 15:18-21, Exo 3:8, Exo 23:23, Exo 23:28-31, Deu 7:1, Deu 9:1
Reciprocal: Gen 10:15 – Heth Gen 10:19 – And the Jos 13:4 – the land of Psa 68:12 – Kings
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Jos 12:8. In the wilderness and in the south country These are joined together because the wilderness was southerly, in the hottest and driest part of the land: but we are not to suppose that the wilderness was a country without people, but only such as was thinly inhabited, in comparison with other parts of the land: for we read of houses and towns in the wilderness, 1Ki 11:34; 1Ki 9:18.