Commentary on Joshua

1These are the kings of the land whom the children of Israel smote, and whose land they possessed beyond the Jordan, towards the rising of the sun, from the torrent Arnon even to Mount Hermon, and all the eastern plain.

2Sehon the Amorite king, who dwelt in Hesbon, who ruled from Aroer to the bank of the torrent Arnon, and to the middle of the torrent, and to the middle part of Gilead, even to the torrent Jabbolz, which is the boundary of the children of Ammon.

3And from the plain even to the sea of Cineroth on the east, and even to the sea of the desert, the sea of salt on the east, by the way of Beth-hagesimoth, and from the south under the outpourings (springs) of Pisgah.

4The boundary besides of Og king of Basan, of the residue of the Rephaim, who dwelt in Astaroth and Hedrei,

5Who ruled in mount Hermon, and in Salchah, and in all Basan, even to the border of Gessuri and Maachathi, and the middle part of Gilead: (such was) the boundary of Sehon king of Basan.

6Moses, the servant of Jehovah, and the children of Israel, smote them, and Moses, the servant of Jehovah, gave it for a possession to the Reubenites, and Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh.

7Now these are the kings whom Joshua and the children of Israel smote beyond the Jordan on the west, from Baal-gad in the plain of Lebanon even to the mountain Laevis which rises in Seir; and Joshua delivered it to the tribes of Israel for a possession according to their portions.

8Among the mountains, and in the plain, and in the lowlands, and in Asdoth, and in the desert, and in the south; the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:

9The king of Jericho, one; the king of Hai, who was on the side of Bethel, one;

10The king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one;

11The king of Jarmath, one; the king of Lachis, one;

12The king of Eglon, one; the king of Jeser, one;

13The king of Debir, one; the king Jeder, one;

14The king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one;

15The king of Libna, one; the king of Adulam, one;

16The king of Makeda, one; the king of Bethel, one;

17The king of Tapuah, one; the king of Epher, one;

18The king of Aphek, one; the king of Lasaron, one;

19The king of Madon, one; the king of Asor, one;

20The king of Simron Meron, one; the king of Achsaph, one;

21The king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one;

22The king of Kedesch, one; the king of Jocnam at Carmel, one;

23The king of Dor, at Naphath-dor, one; the king of Grim in Gilgal, one;

24The king of Thirsa, one; all the kings thirty and one.