Joshua Chapter 12 of 24 about 2 min read

Joshua 12

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Verse 1. Now 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:

Verse 2. Sihon 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,

Verse 3. as 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.

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

Verse 5. He 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.

Verse 6. Moses, 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.

Verse 7. And 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

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

Verse 9. the king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is near Bethel, one;

Verse 10. the king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one;

Verse 11. the king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one;

Verse 12. the king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one;

Verse 13. the king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one;

Verse 14. the king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one;

Verse 15. the king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;

Verse 16. the king of Makkedah, one; the king of Bethel, one;

Verse 17. the king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one;

Verse 18. the king of Aphek, one; the king of Lasharon, one;

Verse 19. the king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one;

Verse 20. the king of Shimron-meron, one; the king of Achshaph, one;

Verse 21. the king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one;

Verse 22. the king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam in Carmel, one;

Verse 23. the king of Dor in Naphath-dor, one; the king of Goiim in Gilgal, one;

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