1 These are the kings of the land whom the Israelites had defeated and whose territory they took over east of the Jordan, from the Arnon Gorge to Mount Hermon, including all the eastern side of the Arabah: |
2 Sihon king of the Amorites,
who reigned in Heshbon. He ruled from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Gorge-from the middle of the gorge-to the Jabbok River, which is the border of the Ammonites. This included half of Gilead. |
3 He also ruled over the eastern Arabah from the Sea of Kinnereth1 12:3 That is, Galilee to the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea2 12:3 That is, the Dead Sea ), to Beth Jeshimoth, and then southward below the slopes of Pisgah. |
4 And the territory of Og king of Bashan,
one of the last of the Rephaites, who reigned in Ashtaroth and Edrei. |
5 He ruled over Mount Hermon, Salecah, all of Bashan to the border of the people of Geshur and Maacah, and half of Gilead to the border of Sihon king of Heshbon. |
6 Moses, the servant of the LORD , and the Israelites conquered them. And Moses the servant of the LORD gave their land to the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh to be their possession. |
7 These are the kings of the land that Joshua and the Israelites conquered on the west side of the Jordan, from Baal Gad in the Valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir (their lands Joshua gave as an inheritance to the tribes of Israel according to their tribal divisions- |
8 the hill country, the western foothills, the Arabah, the mountain slopes, the desert and the Negev-the lands of the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites): |
9 the king of Jericho one
the king of Ai (near Bethel) one |
10 the king of Jerusalem one
the king of Hebronp one |
11 the king of Jarmuth one
the king of Lachish one |
12 the king of Eglon one
the king of Gezer one |
13 the king of Debir one
the king of Geder one |
14 the king of Hormah one
the king of Arad one |
15 the king of Libnah one
the king of Adullam one |
16 the king of Makkedah one
the king of Bethel one |
17 the king of Tappuah one
the king of Hepher one |
18 the king of Aphek one
the king of Lasharon one |
19 the king of Madon one
the king of Hazor one |
20 the king of Shimron Meron one
the king of Acshaph one |
21 the king of Taanach one
the king of Megiddo one |
22 the king of Kedesh one
the king of Jokneam in Carmel one |
23 the king of Dor (in Naphoth Dor3 12:23 Or in the heights of Dor ) one
the king of Goyim in Gilgal one |
24 the king of Tirzah one
thirty-one kings in all. |
