Joshua 12:4-14

4 and the territory of Og king of Bashan, one of 1the remnant of Rephaim, who lived at 2Ashtaroth and at Edrei,
5 and ruled over Mount Hermon and 3Salecah and all Bashan, as far as 4the 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 5Moses 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 6Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir; and Joshua gave it to the tribes of Israel as a possession according to their divisions,
8 in 7the 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:
9 the 8king of Jericho, one; the 9king of Ai, which is beside * Bethel, one;
10 the 10king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one;
11 the king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one;
12 the king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one;
13 the king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one;
14 the king of Hormah, one; the king of 11Arad, one;

Joshua 12:4-14 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 11

  • 1. Deuteronomy 3:11
  • 2. Deuteronomy 1:4
  • 3. Deuteronomy 3:10; Joshua 13:11; 1 Chronicles 5:11
  • 4. Deuteronomy 3:14; 1 Samuel 27:8
  • 5. Numbers 32:33; Deuteronomy 3:12
  • 6. Joshua 11:17
  • 7. Joshua 11:16
  • 8. Joshua 6:2
  • 9. Joshua 8:29
  • 10. Joshua 10:23
  • 11. Numbers 21:1

Footnotes 3

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