Jos 12:1-3 - Commentary

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Text -- Joshua 12:1-3 (NET)

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12:1 Now these are the kings of the land whom the Israelites defeated and drove from their land on the east side of the Jordan, from the Arnon Valley to Mount Hermon, including all the eastern Arabah: 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. 12:3 His kingdom included the eastern Arabah from the Sea of Kinnereth to the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea), including the route to Beth Jeshimoth and the area southward below the slopes of Pisgah.

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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

· Arabah a town of Judea west of Jerusalem on the border of Benjamin

· 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

· Beth-Jeshimoth a town of Moab near the mouth of the Jordan River

· Beth-jeshimoth a town of Moab near the mouth of the Jordan River

· Chinneroth a lake in Galilee on the Jordan River,a region; the plain on the NW shoulder of Lake Chinneroth

· 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

· Hermon a mountain half way between Damascus and Tyre

· Heshbon a town of south-eastern Judah

· Israel a citizen of Israel.,a member of the nation of Israel

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

· Jordan the river that flows from Lake Galilee to the Dead Sea,a river that begins at Mt. Hermon, flows south through Lake Galilee and on to its end at the Dead Sea 175 km away (by air)

· Pisgah a mountain of Reuben about 13 km east of the mouth of the Jordan

· Salt Sea the Dead Sea, at the southern end of the Jordan River

· sea of the Arabah the Dead Sea, at the southern end of the Jordan River

· Sea of the Arabah the Dead Sea, at the southern end of the Jordan River

· Sihon the king of the Amorites in Moses time