Joshua 12:6

6 The LORD's servant Moses and the people of Israel defeated them. Then he gave their land as a possession to the tribes of Reuben and Gad and half of the tribe 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 The territory of King Og of Bashan who lived in Ashtaroth and Edrei was captured. He was the last of the Rephaim.

5 He ruled Mount Hermon, Salecah, all of Bashan to the border of Geshur and Maacath, and half of Gilead to the border of King Sihon of Heshbon.

6 The LORD's servant Moses and the people of Israel defeated them. Then he gave their land as a possession to the tribes of Reuben and Gad and half of the tribe of Manasseh.

7 These are the kings of the land west of the Jordan River that Joshua and the people of Israel defeated. [Their lands extended] from Baal Gad in the valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak which rises toward Seir. Joshua gave it as a possession to Israel, dividing it among the tribes.

8 It included the mountains, foothills, plains, slopes, desert, and the Negev [that the] Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites [had possessed]. The kings were