Joshua 13:15-21

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

16 Their territory was ¹from 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 ²Jahaz and Kedemoth and Mephaath,

19 and ³Kiriathaim 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, ⁴Evi and Rekem and Zur and Hur and Reba, the princes of Sihon, who lived in the land.

Joshua 13:15-21 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.

Cross References

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

Footnotes

• [a]. Or "border"