Joshua 12

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

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1Now these are the kings of the land, whom the Israelites defeated, whose land they occupied beyond the Jordan toward the east, from the Wadi Arnon to Mount Hermon, with all the Arabah eastward:

2King Sihon of the Amorites who lived at Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Wadi Arnon, and from the middle of the valley as far as the river Jabbok, the boundary of the Ammonites, that is, half of Gilead,

3and the Arabah to the Sea of Chinneroth eastward, and in the direction of Beth-jeshimoth, to the sea of the Arabah, the Dead Sea, southward to the foot of the slopes of Pisgah;

4and King Og of Bashan, one of the last of the Rephaim, who lived at Ashtaroth and at Edrei

5and ruled over Mount Hermon and Salecah and all Bashan to the boundary of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and over half of Gilead to the boundary of King Sihon of Heshbon.

6Moses, the servant of the LORD, and the Israelites defeated them; and Moses the servant of the LORD gave their land for a possession to the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

7The following are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the Israelites defeated on the west side of the Jordan, from Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, that rises toward Seir (and Joshua gave their land to the tribes of Israel as a possession according to their allotments,

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

9the king of Jericho one the king of Ai, which is next to Bethel one

10the king of Jerusalem one the king of Hebron one

11the king of Jarmuth one the king of Lachish one

12the king of Eglon one the king of Gezer one

13the king of Debir one the king of Geder one

14the king of Hormah one the king of Arad one

15the king of Libnah one the king of Adullam one

16the king of Makkedah one the king of Bethel one

17the king of Tappuah one the king of Hepher one

18the king of Aphek one the king of Lasharon one

19the king of Madon one the king of Hazor one

20the king of Shimron-meron one the king of Achshaph one

21the king of Taanach one the king of Megiddo one

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

23the king of Dor in Naphath-dor one the king of Goiim in Galilee, one

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

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