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    Joshua 12

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    Thirty-one kings are reduced to a tidy total: two east of the Jordan, and twenty-nine west of it, with Joshua presiding over the list and geography doing much of the talking.

    The two kings east of the Jordanvv. 1–6

    The chapter begins east of the Jordan, where Israel had struck down Sihon and Og and taken their lands. Sihon’s realm ran from the Arnon Valley to the Jabbok, while Og’s stretched across Bashan and Mount Hermon. Moses and the Israelites had done the striking, and the land was given to Reuben, Gad, and half Manasseh—a remarkably administrative ending for two conquered kingdoms.

    The long western roll-callvv. 7–24

    Then the direction changes: west of the Jordan, Joshua and Israel conquered the land from Baal-gad to Mount Halak. The chapter pauses to name its landscapes and peoples, then produces king after king—Jericho, Ai, Jerusalem, Hazor, Megiddo, and many more—each followed by the same brisk little tally. The final king is Tirzah, and the arithmetic arrives at thirty-one.

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    1. Josh 12:1Now these are the kings of the land whom the Israelites struck down and whose lands they took beyond the Jordan to the east, from the Arnon Valley to Mount Hermon, including all the Arabah eastward:

    2. Josh 12:2Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon. He ruled from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along the middle of the valley, up to the Jabbok River (the border of the Ammonites), that is, half of Gilead,

    3. Josh 12:3as well as the Arabah east of the Sea of Chinnereth to the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea), eastward through Beth-jeshimoth, and southward below the slopes of Pisgah.

    4. Josh 12:4And Og king of Bashan, one of the remnant of the Rephaim, who lived in Ashtaroth and Edrei.

    5. Josh 12:5He ruled over Mount Hermon, Salecah, all of Bashan up to the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and half of Gilead to the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.

    6. Josh 12:6Moses, the servant of the LORD, and the Israelites had struck them down and given their land as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

    7. Josh 12:7And these are the kings of the land that Joshua and the Israelites conquered beyond the Jordan to the west, from Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir (according to the allotments to the tribes of Israel, Joshua gave them as an inheritance

    8. Josh 12:8the hill country, the foothills, the Arabah, the slopes, the wilderness, and the Negev—the lands of the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites):

    9. Josh 12:9the king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is near Bethel, one;

    10. Josh 12:10the king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one;

    11. Josh 12:11the king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one;

    12. Josh 12:12the king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one;

    13. Josh 12:13the king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one;

    14. Josh 12:14the king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one;

    15. Josh 12:15the king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;

    16. Josh 12:16the king of Makkedah, one; the king of Bethel, one;

    17. Josh 12:17the king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one;

    18. Josh 12:18the king of Aphek, one; the king of Lasharon, one;

    19. Josh 12:19the king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one;

    20. Josh 12:20the king of Shimron-meron, one; the king of Achshaph, one;

    21. Josh 12:21the king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one;

    22. Josh 12:22the king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam in Carmel, one;

    23. Josh 12:23the king of Dor in Naphath-dor, one; the king of Goiim in Gilgal, one;

    24. Josh 12:24and the king of Tirzah, one. So there were thirty-one kings in all.

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    Where this is echoed

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    • 3Deuteronomy 3:17The Jordan River in the Arabah bordered it from Chinnereth to the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) with the slopes of Pisgah to the east.
    • 10Joshua 10:23So they brought the five kings out of the cave—the kings of Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish, and Eglon.
    • 4Deuteronomy 1:4This was after he had defeated Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and then at Edrei had defeated Og king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth.
    • 1Deuteronomy 3:8–9At that time we took from the two kings of the Amorites the land across the Jordan, from the Arnon Valley as far as Mount Hermon—
    • 7Joshua 11:17from Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir, as far as Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon at the foot of Mount Hermon. He captured all their kings and struck them down, putting them to death.
    • 8Joshua 11:16So Joshua took this entire region: the hill country, all the Negev, all the land of Goshen, the western foothills, the Arabah, and the mountains of Israel and their foothills,
    • 19Joshua 11:1Now when Jabin king of Hazor heard about these things, he sent word to Jobab king of Madon; to the kings of Shimron and Achshaph;
    • 3Joshua 13:20Beth-peor, the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth-jeshimoth—
    • 3Joshua 11:2to the kings of the north in the mountains, in the Arabah south of Chinnereth, in the foothills, and in Naphoth-dor to the west;
    • 5Deuteronomy 3:14Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, took the whole region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites. He renamed Bashan after himself, Havvoth-jair, by which it is called to this day.
    • 12Joshua 10:33At that time Horam king of Gezer went to help Lachish, but Joshua struck him down along with his people, leaving no survivors.
    • 16Joshua 10:28On that day Joshua captured Makkedah and put it to the sword, along with its king. He devoted to destruction everyone in the city, leaving no survivors. So he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.
    • 4Joshua 13:12the whole kingdom of Og in Bashan, who had reigned in Ashtaroth and Edrei and had remained as a remnant of the Rephaim. Moses had struck them down and dispossessed them,
    • 4Numbers 21:33–35Then they turned and went up the road to Bashan, and Og king of Bashan and his whole army came out to meet them in battle at Edrei.
    • 4Deuteronomy 3:10–11all the cities of the plateau, all of Gilead, and all of Bashan as far as the cities of Salecah and Edrei in the kingdom of Og.
    • 5Joshua 13:11also Gilead and the territory of the Geshurites and Maacathites, all of Mount Hermon, and all Bashan as far as Salecah—

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