Joshua 12 - Prayer Tents

Joshua 12

New Living Translation

Kings Defeated East of the Jordan

12These are the kings east of the Jordan River who had been killed by the Israelites and whose land was taken. Their territory extended from the Arnon Gorge to Mount Hermon and included all the land east of the Jordan Valley[1].

2King Sihon of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, was defeated. His kingdom included Aroer, on the edge of the Arnon Gorge, and extended from the middle of the Arnon Gorge to the Jabbok River, which serves as a border for the Ammonites. This territory included the southern half of the territory of Gilead.

3Sihon also controlled the Jordan Valley and regions to the east - from as far north as the Sea of Galilee to as far south as the Dead Sea[2], including the road to Beth-jeshimoth and southward to the slopes of Pisgah.

4King Og of Bashan, the last of the Rephaites, lived at Ashtaroth and Edrei.

5He ruled a territory stretching from Mount Hermon to Salecah in the north and to all of Bashan in the east, and westward to the borders of the kingdoms of Geshur and Maacah. This territory included the northern half of Gilead, as far as the boundary of King Sihon of Heshbon.

6Moses, the servant of the LORD, and the Israelites had destroyed the people of King Sihon and King Og. And Moses gave their land as a possession to the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

Kings Defeated West of the Jordan

7The following is a list of the kings that Joshua and the Israelite armies defeated on the west side of the Jordan, from Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, which leads up to Seir. (Joshua gave this land to the tribes of Israel as their possession,

8including the hill country, the western foothills[3], the Jordan Valley, the mountain slopes, the Judean wilderness, and the Negev. The people who lived in this region were the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.) These are the kings Israel defeated.

9The king of Jericho The king of Ai, near Bethel

10The king of Jerusalem The king of Hebron

11The king of Jarmuth The king of Lachish

12The king of Eglon The king of Gezer

13The king of Debir The king of Geder

14The king of Hormah The king of Arad

15The king of Libnah The king of Adullam

16The king of Makkedah The king of Bethel

17The king of Tappuah The king of Hepher

18The king of Aphek The king of Lasharon

19The king of Madon The king of Hazor

20The king of Shimron-meron The king of Acshaph

21The king of Taanach The king of Megiddo

22The king of Kedesh The king of Jokneam in Carmel

23The king of Dor in the town of Naphoth-dor[4] The king of Goyim in Gilgal[5]

24The king of Tirzah. In all, thirty-one kings were defeated.

[1] Joshua 12:1{Hebrew the Arabah; also in 12.3, 8}
[2] Joshua 12:3{Hebrew from the Sea of Kinnereth to the Sea of the Arabah, which is the Salt Sea}
[3] Joshua 12:8{Hebrew the Shephelah}
[4] Joshua 12:23{Hebrew Naphath-dor, a variant spelling of Naphoth-dor}
[5] Joshua 12:23{Greek version reads Goyim in Galilee}