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Joshua

Chapter 12

The Kings Defeated East of the Jordan and The Kings Defeated West of the Jordan

Joshua 12 gathers the conquered kings into one record. It first names the two kings defeated east of the Jordan under Moses, then lists the kings defeated west of the Jordan under Joshua, turning the long campaign into a settled account of land taken and ready to be inherited.

This chapter pauses the narrative to reckon what has been won. Between the warfare of Joshua's central campaigns and the land allotments that follow, it fixes the scope of Israel's possession under Moses and Joshua.

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Joshua 12

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vv. 1-6

The Kings Defeated East of the Jordan

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N1ow 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: 2Sihon 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, 3as 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. 4And Og king of Bashan, one of the remnant of the Rephaim, who lived in Ashtaroth and Edrei. 5He 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. 6Moses, 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.

vv. 7-24

The Kings Defeated West of the Jordan

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A7nd 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 8the hill country, the foothills, the Arabah, the slopes, the wilderness, and the Negev — the lands of the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites):

9the king of Jericho, one; 10the king of Jerusalem, one; 11the king of Jarmuth, one; 12the king of Eglon, one; 13the king of Debir, one; 14the king of Hormah, one; 15the king of Libnah, one; 16the king of Makkedah, one; 17the king of Tappuah, one; 18the king of Aphek, one; 19the king of Madon, one; 20the king of Shimron-meron, one; 21the king of Taanach, one; 22the king of Kedesh, one; 23the king of Dor in Naphath-dor, one; 24and the king of Tirzah, one.