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Joshua 12:7-24·~1 min

The Kings Defeated West of the Jordan

The western conquests are introduced by their full range, from Baal-gad to Mount Halak, and by the kinds of regions and peoples whose land Joshua gives to Israel as inheritance.

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):

The chapter names the defeated kings west of the Jordan one by one, from Jericho to Tirzah. The repeated form turns scattered battles into a complete register of conquered rule.

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.

Section summaryThe chapter then turns west of the Jordan and records the kings Joshua defeated across the varied regions of Canaan. The long list reduces many campaigns to a simple count, showing the land as conquered and assigned to Israel by tribe.
Role in the chapterThis section gathers Joshua's western victories into a formal register. It closes the conquest narrative's accounting by naming each defeated king one by one, giving the campaigns a fixed and public completeness.