Joshua 13:8-21

Division of the Land East of the Jordan

8 The other half of Manasseh,[a] the Reubenites and the Gadites had received the inheritance that Moses had given them east of the Jordan, as he, the servant of the LORD, had assigned it to them.
9 It extended from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Gorge, and from the town in the middle of the gorge, and included the whole plateau of Medeba as far as Dibon,
10 and all the towns of Sihon king of the Amorites, who ruled in Heshbon, out to the border of the Ammonites.
11 It also included Gilead, the territory of the people of Geshur and Maakah, all of Mount Hermon and all Bashan as far as Salekah—
12 that is, the whole kingdom of Og in Bashan, who had reigned in Ashtaroth and Edrei. (He was the last of the Rephaites.) Moses had defeated them and taken over their land.
13 But the Israelites did not drive out the people of Geshur and Maakah, so they continue to live among the Israelites to this day.
14 But to the tribe of Levi he gave no inheritance, since the food offerings presented to the LORD, the God of Israel, are their inheritance, as he promised them.
15 This is what Moses had given to the tribe of Reuben, according to its clans:
16 The territory from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Gorge, and from the town in the middle of the gorge, and the whole plateau past Medeba
17 to Heshbon and all its towns on the plateau, including Dibon, Bamoth Baal, Beth Baal Meon,
18 Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath,
19 Kiriathaim, Sibmah, Zereth Shahar on the hill in the valley,
20 Beth Peor, the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth Jeshimoth—
21 all the towns on the plateau and the entire realm of Sihon king of the Amorites, who ruled at Heshbon. Moses had defeated him and the Midianite chiefs, Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur and Reba—princes allied with Sihon—who lived in that country.

Cross References 33

  • 1. S Joshua 12:6
  • 2. Joshua 18:7
  • 3. ver 16; S Numbers 32:34; Deuteronomy 2:36; Judges 11:26; 2 Samuel 24:5
  • 4. ver 17,21; Jeremiah 48:8,21
  • 5. S Numbers 21:30; S Numbers 32:3; Isaiah 15:2; Jeremiah 48:18,22
  • 6. S Joshua 12:2
  • 7. S Numbers 21:24
  • 8. S Joshua 12:2
  • 9. Joshua 12:5
  • 10. S Deuteronomy 1:4; Deuteronomy 3:11
  • 11. Joshua 12:4
  • 12. S Numbers 21:33
  • 13. S Genesis 14:5
  • 14. S Deuteronomy 3:8
  • 15. S Joshua 12:5
  • 16. S Deuteronomy 3:14
  • 17. Deuteronomy 3:12
  • 18. ver 33; Deuteronomy 18:1-2; Joshua 14:3
  • 19. S ver 9; Joshua 12:2; 1 Samuel 30:28
  • 20. S Numbers 21:30; Isaiah 15:2
  • 21. S ver 9
  • 22. S Numbers 32:3
  • 23. Numbers 22:41
  • 24. 1 Chronicles 5:8; Jeremiah 48:23; Ezekiel 25:9
  • 25. S Numbers 21:23
  • 26. S Deuteronomy 2:26
  • 27. Joshua 21:37; Jeremiah 48:21
  • 28. S Numbers 32:37
  • 29. S Numbers 32:3
  • 30. S Deuteronomy 3:29
  • 31. S ver 9
  • 32. S Genesis 25:2; S Numbers 25:15
  • 33. Numbers 31:8

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Hebrew "With it" (that is, with the other half of Manasseh)
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