Joshua 12:2-5

2 Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon. He ruled from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Gorge—from the middle of the gorge—to the Jabbok River, which is the border of the Ammonites. This included half of Gilead.

3 He also ruled over the eastern Arabah from the Sea of Galilee^[a] to the Sea of the Arabah (that is, the Dead Sea), to Beth Jeshimoth, and then southward below the slopes of Pisgah.

4 And the territory of Og king of Bashan, one of the last of the Rephaites, who reigned in Ashtaroth and Edrei.

5 He ruled over Mount Hermon, Salekah, all of Bashan to the border of the people of Geshur and Maakah, and half of Gilead to the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.

Joshua 12:2-5 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOSHUA 12

This chapter gives a short account of the conquests made by the Israelites, both in the times of Moses and of Joshua, and first of the kingdom of Sihon and Og on the other side Jordan, in the times of Moses, and which he gave to the two tribes of Reuben and Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh, and which are particularly described, Jos 12:1-6; and then of the kings and the countries on this side Jordan whom Joshua conquered, Jos 12:7,8; and the names of the thirty one kingdoms are recited, that so it might be exactly known and observed what were afterwards divided among the tribes and possessed by them, Jos 12:9-24.

Cross References

• 1. ver 5; S Numbers 21:21,25; Joshua 13:10; Judges 11:19
• 2. S Numbers 32:34; S Joshua 13:16
• 3. S Genesis 32:22
• 4. S Genesis 19:38
• 5. S Genesis 31:21; S Numbers 32:26; Deuteronomy 2:36; S Deuteronomy 3:15; Joshua 13:11,25; Joshua 17:1; Joshua 20:8; Joshua 21:38; Judges 5:17; Judges 7:3; Judges 10:8
• 6. Joshua 11:2
• 7. S Genesis 14:3
• 8. S Numbers 33:49; Joshua 13:20
• 9. S Numbers 21:20
• 10. S Numbers 21:21,33; Joshua 13:30; Deuteronomy 3:11
• 11. S Genesis 14:5
• 12. S Deuteronomy 1:4
• 13. S Deuteronomy 3:10
• 14. Numbers 32:33; Joshua 17:1; Joshua 20:8; Joshua 21:27; Joshua 22:7
• 15. Joshua 13:2,13; 1 Samuel 27:8
• 16. S Deuteronomy 3:14
• 17. ver 2

Footnotes

• [a]. Hebrew "Kinnereth"