Joshua 13:30

30 Their territory extended to Mahanaim and included all of Bashan - the whole kingdom of Og, the king of Bashan, as well as all sixty of the villages of Jair in Bashan.

Joshua 13:30 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 13:30

And their coast was from Mahanaim
A place in the tribe of Gad, ( Joshua 13:26 ) ; which was the boundary of the half tribe that way:

all Bashan;
so famous for its oxen, and for pasturage for them, and for its oaks, called by Josephus Batanea:

all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan;
which, besides Bashan, took in the kingdom of Argob or Trachonitis, half the land of Gilead, all which was possessed by the half tribe of Manasseh: see ( Deuteronomy 3:13 ) ;

and all the towns of, Jair which [are] in Bashan, threescore cities;
of Jair, and his relation to Manasseh, and of his taking these cities, and the number of them, see ( Numbers 33:41 ) ( Deuteronomy 3:4 Deuteronomy 3:14 ) .

Joshua 13:30 In-Context

28 These were the cities and towns given to the families of the tribe of Gad as their possession.

29 Moses had given a part of the land to the families of half the tribe of Manasseh as their possession.

30 Their territory extended to Mahanaim and included all of Bashan - the whole kingdom of Og, the king of Bashan, as well as all sixty of the villages of Jair in Bashan.

31 It included half of Gilead, as well as Ashtaroth and Edrei, the capital cities of Og's kingdom in Bashan. All this was given to half the families descended from Machir son of Manasseh.

32 This is how Moses divided the land east of Jericho and the Jordan when he was in the plains of Moab.