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Joshua 12
Berean Standard Bible
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The Kings Defeated East of the Jordan
Verse1Now these are the kings of the land whom the Israelites struck down and whose lands they took beyond the Jordan to the east, from the Arnon Valley to Mount Hermon, including all the Arabah eastward:
Verse2Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon. He ruled from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along the middle of the valley, up to the Jabbok River (the border of the Ammonites), that is, half of Gilead,
Verse3as well as the Arabah east of the Sea of Chinnereth to the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea ), eastward through Beth-jeshimoth, and southward below the slopes of Pisgah.
Verse4And Og king of Bashan, one of the remnant of the Rephaim, who lived in Ashtaroth and Edrei.
Verse5He ruled over Mount Hermon, Salecah, all of Bashan up to the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and half of Gilead to the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.
Verse6Moses, the servant of the LORD, and the Israelites had struck them down and given their land as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.
The Kings Defeated West of the Jordan
Verse7And these are the kings of the land that Joshua and the Israelites conquered beyond the Jordan to the west, from Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir (according to the allotments to the tribes of Israel, Joshua gave them as an inheritance
Verse8the hill country, the foothills, the Arabah, the slopes, the wilderness, and the Negev—the lands of the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites):
Verse9the king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is near Bethel, one;
Verse10the king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one;
Verse11the king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one;
Verse12the king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one;
Verse13the king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one;
Verse14the king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one;
Verse15the king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;
Verse16the king of Makkedah, one; the king of Bethel, one;
Verse17the king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one;
Verse18the king of Aphek, one; the king of Lasharon, one;
Verse19the king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one;
Verse20the king of Shimron-meron, one; the king of Achshaph, one;
Verse21the king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one;
Verse22the king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam in Carmel, one;
Verse23the king of Dor in Naphath-dor, one; the king of Goiim in Gilgal, one;
Verse24and the king of Tirzah, one. So there were thirty-one kings in all.
Translator notes (6)
- Verse 3: That is, the Sea of Galilee
- Verse 3: That is, the Dead Sea
- Verse 4: LXX; Hebrew And the territory of Og king of Bashan
- Verse 8: Hebrew Shephelah or lowlands; that is, the western foothills of Judea
- Verse 23: Or in the heights of Dor; Naphath-dor is a variant of Naphoth-dor; see Joshua 11:2.
- Verse 23: Hebrew; LXX Goyim in Galilee