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The Kings Conquered by Joshua

12 These are the kings of the land whom the Israelites[a] defeated, and of whose land they took possession beyond the Jordon to the east,[b] from the wadi[c] of Arnon up to Mount Hermon, and all the Arabah[d] to the east: Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the wadi[e] of Arnon, from the middle of the valley and half of Gilead, up to the Jabbok River,[f] which marks the border of the Ammonites;[g] and the Arabah[h] up to the Kinnereth Sea[i] to the east, and as far as the sea of Arabah, the Salt Sea[j] to the east, in the direction of[k] Beth Jeshimoth, and to the area southward, at the foot of[l] the slopes of Pisgah;[m]

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 12:1 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  2. Joshua 12:1 Literally “to the rising of the sun”
  3. Joshua 12:1 A valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season
  4. Joshua 12:1 A dry region that runs south of the Sea of Galilee along the Jordan Valley
  5. Joshua 12:2 A valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season
  6. Joshua 12:2 Literally “Jabbok the wadi”
  7. Joshua 12:2 Literally “sons of Ammon” or “children of Ammon”
  8. Joshua 12:3 A dry region that runs south of the Sea of Galilee along the Jordan Valley
  9. Joshua 12:3 That is, the Sea of Galilee
  10. Joshua 12:3 That is, the Dead Sea
  11. Joshua 12:3 Literally “the way of”
  12. Joshua 12:3 Literally “under”
  13. Joshua 12:3 Or Ashdoth Pisgah