Joshua 12:6

6 Moses the servant of the LORD and the sons of Israel defeated them; and ¹Moses the servant of the LORD gave it to the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe * of Manasseh as a possession.

Joshua 12:6 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 12:6

Them did Moses the servant of the Lord, and the children of
Israel, smite
That is, the inhabitants of those kingdoms they smote with the edge of the sword, and took possession of them, the history of which see in ( Numbers 21:1-3 Numbers 21:21-35 ) ;

and Moses the servant of the Lord gave it;
the whole dominion of the two kings before mentioned:

[for] a possession unto the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half
tribe of Manasseh:
of which grant, and the conditions of it, see ( Numbers 32:1-42 ) .

Joshua 12:6 In-Context

4 and the territory of Og king of Bashan, one of the remnant of Rephaim, who lived at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,

5 and ruled over Mount Hermon and Salecah and all Bashan, as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and half of Gilead, as far as the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.

6 Moses the servant of the LORD and the sons of Israel defeated them; and Moses the servant of the LORD gave it to the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh as a possession.

7 Now these are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the sons of Israel defeated beyond the Jordan toward the west, from Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon even as far as Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir; and Joshua gave it to the tribes of Israel as a possession according to their divisions,

8 in the hill country, in the lowland, in the Arabah, on the slopes, and in the wilderness, and in the Negev; the Hittite, the Amorite and the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite:

Cross References

• 1. Numbers 32:33; Deuteronomy 3:12

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "smote"