Joshua 12:1

And these [are] kings of the land whom the sons of Israel have smitten, and possess their land, beyond the Jordan, at the sun-rising, from the brook Arnon unto mount Hermon, and all the plain eastward.

Young's Literal Translation

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

2Sihon, king of the Amorite, who is dwelling in Heshbon, ruling from Aroer which [is] on the border of the brook Arnon, and the middle of the brook, and half of Gilead, and unto Jabok the brook, the border of the Bene-Ammon;

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Cross References

Numbers 21:13From thence they have journeyed, and encamp beyond Arnon, which [is] in the wilderness which is coming out of the border of the Amorite, for Arnon [is] the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorite;

Numbers 21:24And Israel smiteth him by the mouth of the sword, and possesseth his land from Arnon unto Jabbok — unto the sons of Ammon; for the border of the sons of Ammon [is] strong.

Deuteronomy 2:24'Rise ye, journey and pass over the brook Arnon; see, I have given into thy hand Sihon king of Heshbon, the Amorite, and his land; begin to possess, and stir up thyself against him [in] battle.

Deuteronomy 3:1'And we turn, and go up the way to Bashan, and Og king of Bashan cometh out to meet us, he and all his people, to battle, [to] Edrei.

Deuteronomy 4:44And this [is] the law which Moses hath set before the sons of Israel;

Deuteronomy 4:48from Aroer, which [is] by the edge of the brook Arnon, even unto mount Sion, which [is] 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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