Joshua 12:7-24

Kings Defeated by Joshua

7 And these are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the people of Israel defeated on the west side of the Jordan, from Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon to ¹Mount Halak, that rises toward Seir (and Joshua gave their land to the tribes of Israel as a possession ²according to their allotments,

8 ³in the hill country, in the lowland, in the Arabah, in the slopes, in the wilderness, and in the Negeb, the land of ⁴the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites):

9 ⁵the king of Jericho, one; ⁶the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one;

10 ⁷the king of Jerusalem, one; ⁸the king of Hebron, one;

11 ⁹the king of Jarmuth, one; ¹⁰the king of Lachish, one;

12 ¹¹the king of Eglon, one; ¹²the king of Gezer, one;

13 ¹³the king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one;

14 the king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one;

15 ¹⁴the king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;

16 ¹⁵the king of Makkedah, one; ¹⁶the king of Bethel, one;

17 the king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one;

18 the king of Aphek, one; the king of Lasharon, one;

19 ¹⁷the king of Madon, one; ¹⁸the king of Hazor, one;

20 ¹⁹the king of Shimron-meron, one; ²⁰the king of Achshaph, one;

21 ²¹the king of Taanach, one; ²²the king of Megiddo, one;

22 the king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam in Carmel, one;

23 ²³the king of Dor in ²⁴Naphath-dor, one; the king of Goiim in Galilee, ^[a] one;

24 the king of Tirzah, one: in all, thirty-one kings.

Joshua 12:7-24 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

• 1. 12:7 ch. 11:17
• 2. 12:7 ch. 11:23; 18:10
• 3. 12:8 ch. 10:40; 11:16
• 4. 12:8 ch. 9:1
• 5. 12:9 [ch. 6:2]
• 6. 12:9 ch. 8:29
• 7. 12:10 ch. 10:23
• 8. 12:10 ch. 10:23
• 9. 12:11 [See ver. 10 above]
• 10. 12:11 [See ver. 10 above]
• 11. 12:12 [See ver. 10 above]
• 12. 12:12 ch. 10:33
• 13. 12:13 ch. 10:38, 39
• 14. 12:15 ch. 10:29
• 15. 12:16 ch. 10:28
• 16. 12:16 ch. 8:17; Judg. 1:22
• 17. 12:19 ch. 11:1
• 18. 12:19 ch. 11:1, 10
• 19. 12:20 [See ver. 19 above]
• 20. 12:20 [See ver. 19 above]
• 21. 12:21 ch. 17:11
• 22. 12:21 ch. 17:11
• 23. 12:23 [See ver. 21 above]
• 24. 12:23 ch. 11:2

Footnotes

• [a] 12:23 Septuagint; Hebrew 'Gilgal'