12:2 King Sihon of the Amorites who lived 2 in Heshbon and ruled from Aroer (on the edge of the Arnon Valley) – including the city in the middle of the valley 3 and half of Gilead – all the way to the Jabbok Valley bordering Ammonite territory.
1 sn Wadi Jabbok. Now known as the Zerqa River, this is a major tributary of the Jordan that normally served as a boundary between Ammon and Gad (Deut 3:16).
2 tn Or perhaps, “reigned.”
3 tc The MT reads here, “and the middle of the valley,” but the reading “the city in the middle of valley” can be reconstructed on the basis of Josh 13:9, 16.