And Joshua smote them, from Kadeshbarnea,.... Which lay to the south of the land of Canaan, Nu 13:17;even unto Gaza, which lay to the southwest, and was one of the five principalities of the Philistines; of which city See Gill on "Am 1:7"; and See Gill on "Ac 8:26";and all the country of Goshen, even unto Gibeon; to which he returned back in his way to his camp at Gilgal, having conquered all the southern part of the country.
This country of Goshen is not that in the land of Egypt, as Kimchi rightly remarks. Bishop Cumberland is of opinion, that the Phoenician or Canaanitish pastors, who were driven out of Egypt before their expulsion, inhabited that part of Egypt called Goshen, which the Israelites some years after dwelt in; and when those shepherds were driven out, they came into this part of the land of Canaan, and called it after the name of the country they left in Egypt; and might perhaps the rather choose to give it this name, because of the goodness and fruitfulness of it, in which it resembled the country they had formerly dwelt in.
Remarks on the History of Sanchoniatho, p.