People’s Open Bible
Joshua 12
Thirty-One Kings Defeated Here
Open in the reader →1These are the kings of the land whom the sons of Israel struck down and whose land they took possession of beyond the Jordan, toward the sunrise, from the Wadi Arnon as far as Mount Hermon, and all the Arabah eastward.
2Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, ruling from Aroer, which is on the bank of the Arnon Valley, and from the middle of the valley, and half of Gilead, as far as the Jabbok Valley, the border of the sons of Ammon.
3and the Arabah as far as the Sea of Kinnereth eastward, and as far as the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, eastward, by way of Beth-jeshimoth, and southward, below the slopes of Pisgah.
4and the territory of Og king of Bashan, from the remnant of the Rephaim, who lived in Ashtaroth and in Edrei.
5and ruling over Mount Hermon, and Salecah, and all Bashan, as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and half of Gilead, to the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.
6Moses the servant of Yahweh, and the sons of Israel, struck them down, and Moses the servant of Yahweh gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.
7And these are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the sons of Israel struck down beyond the Jordan westward, from Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon as far as Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir; and Joshua gave it to the tribes of Israel as an inheritance according to their divisions.
8in the hill country, and in the lowland, and in the Arabah, and on the slopes, and in the wilderness, and in the Negev—the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
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 Sharon, 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 by Carmel, one.
23the king of Dor in Naphath-dor, one; the king of Goiim in Gilgal, one;
24the king of Tirzah, one; all the kings, thirty-one.
Composed from original Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and Ge’ez manuscripts, rendered in multiple passes to stay as close to the originals as possible. About this project