Joshua 13:12-22

12 all the kingdom of ¹Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (he alone was left of the remnant of the Rephaim ); for Moses ²struck them and dispossessed them.

13 But the sons of Israel did not dispossess the Geshurites or the Maacathites; for Geshur and Maacath live among Israel until this day.

14 ³Only to the tribe of Levi he did not give an inheritance; the offerings by fire to the LORD, the God of Israel, are their inheritance, as He spoke to him.

15 So Moses gave an inheritance to the tribe of the sons of Reuben according to their families.

16 Their territory was ⁴from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, with the city which is in the middle of the valley and all the plain by Medeba;

17 Heshbon, and all its cities which are on the plain: Dibon and Bamoth-baal and Beth-baal-meon,

18 and ⁵Jahaz and Kedemoth and Mephaath,

19 and ⁶Kiriathaim and Sibmah and Zereth-shahar on the hill of the valley,

20 and Beth-peor and the slopes of Pisgah and Beth-jeshimoth,

21 even all the cities of the plain and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses struck with the chiefs of Midian, ⁷Evi and Rekem and Zur and Hur and Reba, the princes of Sihon, who lived in the land.

22 The sons of Israel also killed ⁸Balaam the son of Beor, the diviner, with the sword among the rest of their slain.

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Joshua 13:12-22 Meaning and Commentary

\\INTRODUCTION JOSHUA 13\\

In this chapter Joshua is informed by the Lord, or put in mind, that
part of the land of Canaan remained unconquered, and which it was; and
is directed to divide the whole land among the nine tribes, and the
half tribe of Manasseh, Jos 13:1-9; and since the two tribes of Reuben
and Gad, and the other half tribe of Manasseh, had received their
inheritance on the other side Jordan, Jos 13:8; that is described in
general, Jos 13:9-14; and, then the particular portion of Reuben,
Jos 13:15-23; and of Gad, Jos 13:24-28; and of the half tribe of
Manasseh, Jos 13:29-33.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 8

1. Deuteronomy 3:11
2. Numbers 21:24
3. Deuteronomy 18:1, 2
4. Joshua 13:9
5. Numbers 21:23; Judges 11:20; Isaiah 15:4; Jeremiah 48:34
6. Numbers 32:37; Jeremiah 48:1, 23; Ezekiel 25:9
7. Numbers 31:8
8. Numbers 31:8

Footnotes 2

[a]. Lit "his"
[b]. Or "border"

Joshua 13:12-22

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Joshua 13:12-22 Meaning and Commentary

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