Joshua 12:1

These are the kings whom the sons of Israel struck down, and whose land they possessed beyond the Jordan, toward the rising of the sun, from the torrent Arnon as far as mount Hermon, with the entire eastern region that looks out toward the wilderness:

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Now these are the kings of the land, which the children of Israel smote, and possessed their land on the other side Jordan toward the rising of the sun, from the river Arnon unto mount Hermon, and all the plain on the east:

In Context

2Sihon, the king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon, and who had dominion from Aroer, which is situated on the bank of the torrent Arnon, and the valley in the middle, and one half of Gilead, as far as the torrent Jabbok, which is the border of the sons of Ammon,

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Numbers 21:13Having left that place behind, they then made camp opposite Arnon, which is in the desert, and which juts out at the borders of the Amorite. For certainly Arnon is at the limit of Moab, dividing the Moabites and the Amorites.

Numbers 21:24And he was struck down by them with the edge of the sword, and they possessed his land from Arnon, even to Jabbok and the sons of Ammon. For the borders of the Ammonites were held by a strong fortress.

Deuteronomy 2:24‘Rise up and cross the torrent Arnon! Behold, I have delivered Sihon, the king of Heshbon, the Amorite, into your hand, and so, begin to possess his land and to engage in battle against him.

Deuteronomy 3:1“And so, having turned back, we ascended by the way of Bashan. And Og, the king of Bashan, went forth with his people to meet us in warfare at Edrei.

Deuteronomy 4:44This is the law, which Moses set forth before the sons of Israel.

Deuteronomy 4:48from Aroer, which is situated above the bank of the torrent Arnon, as far as Mount Zion, which is also called Hermon,

Matthew Henry on Joshua 12:1

This chapter is a summary of Israel's conquests. I. Their conquests under Moses, on the other side Jordan (for we now suppose ourselves in Canaan) eastward, which we had the history of, Num. xxi. 24 , &c. And here the abridgment of that history, ver. 1-6 . II. Their conquests under Joshua, on this side Jordan, westward. 1. The country they reduced, ver. 7, 8 . 2. The kings they subdued, thirty-one in all, ver. 9-24 . And this comes in here, not only as a conclusion of the history of the wars of Canaan (that we… Read the whole commentary →

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