Matthew Poole and continuators on Joshua 12:8

8 In the mountain, and in the vale, and in the plain, and in the springs, and in the wilderness , and in the south countrey; the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

This word here and elsewhere in Scripture notes not a Land wholly desart and uninhabited, but one thin of Inhabitants, as 1 King. 2. 34. and 9. 18. Mat. 3. 1, 3.