Joshua 12

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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: ✦ 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, ✦ 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. ✦ ⁴And Og king of Bashan, one of the remnant of the Rephaim, who lived in Ashtaroth and Edrei. ✦ 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. ✦ 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. ✦ 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 ✦ 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): ✦ ⁹the king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is near Bethel, one; ✦ ¹⁰the king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one; ✦ ¹¹the king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one; ✦ ¹²the king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one; ✦ ¹³the king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one; ✦ ¹⁴the king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one; ✦ ¹⁵the king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one; ✦ ¹⁶the king of Makkedah, one; the king of Bethel, one; ✦ ¹⁷the king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one; ✦ ¹⁸the king of Aphek, one; the king of Lasharon, one; ✦ ¹⁹the king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one; ✦ ²⁰the king of Shimron-meron, one; the king of Achshaph, one; ✦ ²¹the king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one; ✦ ²²the king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam in Carmel, one; ✦ ²³the king of Dor in Naphath-dor, one; the king of Goiim in Gilgal, one; ✦ ²⁴and the king of Tirzah, one. So there were thirty-one kings in all. ✦

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