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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]

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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”