Joshua 12:2 - Commentary

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Text -- Joshua 12:2 (NET)

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12:2 King Sihon of the Amorites who lived in Heshbon and ruled from Aroer (on the edge of the Arnon Valley)– including the city in the middle of the valley and half of Gilead– all the way to the Jabbok Valley bordering Ammonite territory.

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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:

· Ammonites the tribe/nation of people descended from Ben-Ammi, Lot's son,Territory of the tribe/nation of Ammon

· Amorites members of a pre-Israel Semitic tribe from Mesopotamia

· Arnon a river forming the southern border of Ammon east of the Dead Sea

· Aroer a town by the Wadi Arnon on the border of Reuben and Gad,a town in the desert of Judah

· Gilead a mountainous region east of the Jordan & north of the Arnon to Hermon,son of Machir son of Manasseh; founder of the clan of Gilead,father of Jephthah the judge,son of Michael of the tribe of Gad

· Heshbon a town of south-eastern Judah

· Jabbok a river flowing west into the Jordan River 40 km north of the Dead Sea

· Sihon the king of the Amorites in Moses time