Joshua 12

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¹Now these are the kings of the land whom the sons of Israel defeated, and they took possession of their land beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise, from the Valley of the Arnon as far as Mount Hermon, and all the Arabah to the east: ✦ ²Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, both the middle of the valley and half of Gilead, even as far as the brook Jabbok, the border of the sons of Ammon; ✦ ³and the Arabah as far as the Sea of Chinneroth toward the east, and as far as the Sea of the Arabah, that is, the Salt Sea, eastward toward Beth-jeshimoth, and on the south, at the foot of the slopes of Pisgah; ✦ ⁴and the territory of Og king of Bashan, one of the remnant of Rephaim, who lived at Ashtaroth and at Edrei, ✦ ⁵and ruled over Mount Hermon, Salecah, and all Bashan, as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and half of Gilead, as far as the border of Sihon king of Heshbon. ✦ ⁶Moses the servant of the Lord and the sons of Israel defeated them; and Moses the servant of the Lord gave it to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh as a possession. ✦ ⁷Now these are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the sons of Israel defeated beyond the Jordan toward the west, from Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon even as far as Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir; and Joshua gave it to the tribes of Israel as a possession according to their divisions, ✦ ⁸in the hill country, in the lowland, in the Arabah, on the slopes, in the wilderness, and in the Negev; the Hittite, the Amorite and the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite: ✦ ⁹the king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside 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 the heights of Dor, one; the king of Goiim in Gilgal, one; ✦ ²⁴the king of Tirzah, one: in all, thirty-one kings. ✦

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Joshua — the same name as Jesus, 'the LORD saves' — leads God's people into their inheritance, a shadow of the greater Joshua who brings us into the true rest and the promised land that remains.

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