Joshua 12:1

These are the kings, whom the children of Israel slew and possessed their land beyond the Jordan towards the rising of the sun, from the torrent Arnon unto mount Hermon, and all the east country that looketh towards the wilderness.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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

2Sehon king of the Amorrhites, who dwelt in Hesebon, and had dominion from Aroer, which is seated upon the bank of the torrent Arnon, and of the middle part in the valley, and of half Galaad, as far as the torrent Jaboc, which is the border of the children of Ammon.

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Cross References

Numbers 21:13Which they left and encamped over against Arnon, which is in the desert and standeth out on the borders of the Amorrhite. For Arnon is the border of Moab, dividing the Moabites and the Amorrhites.

Numbers 21:24And he was slain by them with the edge of the sword, and they possessed his land from the Arnon unto the Jeboc, and to the confines of the children of Ammon: for the borders of the Ammonites, were kept with a strong garrison.

Deuteronomy 2:24Arise ye, and pass the torrent Arnon: Behold I have delivered into thy hand Sehon king of Hesebon the Amorrhite, and begin thou to possess his land and make war against him.

Deuteronomy 3:1Then we turned and went by the way of Basan: and Og the king of Basan came out to meet us with his people to fight in Edrai.

Deuteronomy 4:44This is the law, that Moses set before the children of Israel,

Deuteronomy 4:48From Aroer, which is situate upon the bank of the torrent Amen, unto mount Sion, 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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