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Joshua 12:5-15

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5 and ruled over Mount Hermon and 1Salecah and all Bashan, as far as 2the 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 3Moses 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 4Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir; and Joshua gave it to the tribes of Israel as a possession according to their divisions,
8 in 5the 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 6king of Jericho, one; the 7king of Ai, which is beside * Bethel, one;
10 the 8king 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 9Arad, one;
15 the king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;
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Joshua 12:5-15 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.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 9

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

Footnotes 3

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