Study it in the app“So Joshua took all this land: the hill country, all the Negev, all the land of Goshen, the Shephelah, the Arabah, and the hill country of Israel and its Shephelah,”
So Joshuaיְהוֹשֻׁעַtookוַיִּקַּחallאֶת כָּלthisהַזֹּאתland:הָאָרֶץthe hill country,הָהָרallוְאֶת כָּלthe Negev,הַנֶּגֶבallוְאֵת כָּלthe landאֶרֶץof Goshen,הַגֹּשֶׁןthe Shephelah,וְאֶת הַשְּׁפֵלָהthe Arabah,וְאֶת הָעֲרָבָהand the hill countryוְאֶת הַרof Israelיִשְׂרָאֵלand its Shephelah,וּשְׁפֵלָתֹה
Joshua
Joshua, the helper and successor of Moses. The name means "YHWH saves"; in Greek it is the same name as "Jesus". Other men bore it, among them the high priest after the exile (Haggai 1:1).
Where else “yehoshua” appearstake
To grasp something in the hand to carry or use it.
Where else “yikach” appearsland
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “arets” appearshill country
A whole region of high ground, like that of Ephraim or Judah.
Where else “har” appearsNegev
The dry land in the south of Israel.
Where else “negev” appearsGoshen
See it on the mapWhere else “goshen” appearslowland, Shephelah
Shephelah, the lowland: the zone of low hills between the hill country of Judah and the coast.
Where else “shefela” appearsArabah
The valley of the Jordan and the Dead Sea.
Where else “arava” appearsIsrael
Israel, the new name Jacob received from God, explained as "you have striven with God" (Genesis 32:28); then the name of the people that came from him and, after the division, of the northern kingdom.
Where else “yisrael” appearsGoshen ?
Today: eastern Nile Delta (Wadi Tumilat), Egypt; debated
A region of the eastern Nile delta in Egypt; how far it extended is not certain.
Pharaoh gave that land to Jacob and his family to live in (Gen 47:6). During the plagues, no hail fell on Goshen (Exod 9:26).
15Just as YHWH had commanded Moses his servant, so Moses commanded Joshua, and so Joshua did; he did not remove a word of all that YHWH had commanded Moses.
16 · This verse (above)
17from Mount Halak, which goes up toward Seir, as far as Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon below Mount Hermon. And all their kings he took and struck them and put them to death.
