Joshua 12

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¹Now these are the kings of the land, whom the children of Israel struck, and possessed their land beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon, and all the Arabah eastward: ✦ ²Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the middle of the valley, and half Gilead, even to the river Jabbok, the border of the children of Ammon; ✦ ³and the Arabah to the sea of Chinneroth, eastward, and to the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, eastward, the way to Beth Jeshimoth; and on the south, under the slopes of Pisgah: ✦ ⁴and the border of Og king of Bashan, of the remnant of the Rephaim, who lived at Ashtaroth and at Edrei, ✦ ⁵and ruled in Mount Hermon, and in Salecah, and in all Bashan, to the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon. ✦ ⁶Moses the servant of Yahweh and the children of Israel struck them. Moses the servant of Yahweh gave it for a possession to the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh. ✦ ⁷These are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the children of Israel struck beyond the Jordan westward, from Baal Gad in the valley of Lebanon even to Mount Halak, that goes up to Seir. Joshua gave it to the tribes of Israel for a possession according to their divisions; ✦ ⁸in the hill country, and in the lowland, and in the Arabah, and in the slopes, and in the wilderness, and in the South; 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 Lassharon, 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 height of Dor, one; the king of Goiim in Gilgal, one; ✦ ²⁴the king of Tirzah, one: all the kings thirty-one. ✦

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