Joshua 12:6

6 These Moses the servant of the LORD and the children of Israel smote; and Moses the servant of the LORD gave it for a possession unto the Reubenites and the Gadites and the halftribe of Manasseh.

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, who was of the remnant of the giants, who dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,

5 and reigned in Mount Hermon and in Salcah and in all Bashan, unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and half of Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.

6 These Moses the servant of the LORD and the children of Israel smote; and Moses the servant of the LORD gave it for a possession unto the Reubenites and the Gadites and the halftribe of Manasseh.

7 And these are the kings of the country which Joshua and the children of Israel smote on this side of the Jordan on the west, from Baalgad in the Valley of Lebanon even unto the Mount Halak that goeth up to Seir, which Joshua gave unto the tribes of Israel for a possession according to their divisions,

8 in the mountains and in the valleys and in the plains, and in the springs and in the wilderness and in the south country -- the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: