Joshua 13:20

Bible in Basic English

And Beth-peor, and the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth-jeshimoth;

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Beth-peor, the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth-jeshimoth—

Hebrew Names Version
and Beit-Pe`or, and the slopes of Pisgah, and Beit-Hayshimot,

King James Version
And Bethpeor, and Ashdothpisgah, and Bethjeshimoth,

Lexham English Bible
Beth Peor, the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth Jeshimoth;

English Standard Version
and Beth-peor, and the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth-jeshimoth,

New Century Version
Beth Peor, the hills of Pisgah, and Beth Jeshimoth.

New English Translation
Beth Peor, the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth Jeshimoth.

Amplified Bible
and Beth-peor and the slopes of Pisgah and Beth-jeshimoth,

New American Standard Bible
Beth-peor, the slopes of Pisgah, Beth-jeshimoth,

Geneva Bible (1587)
And Beth-peor, and Ashdoth-pisgah, and Beth-ieshimoth:

Legacy Standard Bible
and Beth-peor and the slopes of Pisgah and Beth-jeshimoth,

Complete Jewish Bible
Beit-P‘or, the slopes of Pisgah, Beit-Yeshimot,

Darby Translation
and Beth-Peor, and the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth-jeshimoth;

Easy-to-Read Version
Beth Peor, the hills of Pisgah, and Beth Jeshimoth.

George Lamsa Translation
And Beth-peor and Ashtaroth and Pisgah and Beth-jeshimoth

Good News Translation
Bethpeor, the slopes of Mount Pisgah, and Beth Jeshimoth.

Literal Translation
and Beth-peor, and the Slopes of Pisgah, and Beth-jeshimoth;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Beth Peor: the ryuers by Pisga, and Beth Iesimoth,

American Standard Version
and Beth-peor, and the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth-jeshimoth,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
The house of Peor, and the springes of the hilles, and Bethpheor, and Ashdoth Pisgah, and Besiesimoth:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
and Beth-peor, and the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth-jeshimoth;

King James Version (1611)
And Bethpeor, and Ashdoth-Pisgah, and Beth-ieshimoth:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and Baethphogor, and Asedoth Phasga, and Baetthasinoth,

English Revised Version
and Beth-peor, and the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth-jeshimoth;

Berean Standard Bible
Beth-peor, the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth-jeshimoth-

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and of Asedoch, Phasca, and Bethaissymoth;

Young's Literal Translation
and Beth-Peor, and the springs of Pisgah, and Beth-Jeshimoth,

Update Bible Version
and Beth-peor, and the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth-jeshimoth,

Webster's Bible Translation
And Beth-peor, and Ashdoth-pisgah, and Beth-jeshimoth,

World English Bible
and Beth-peor, and the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth-jeshimoth,

New King James Version
Beth Peor, the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth Jeshimoth--

New Living Translation
Beth-peor, the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth-jeshimoth.

New Life Bible
Beth-peor, the hill-sides of Pishgah, and Beth-jeshimoth.

New Revised Standard
and Beth-peor, and the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth-jeshimoth,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and Beth-peor, and the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth-jeshimoth;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Bethphogor and Asedoth, Phasga and Bethiesimoth,

Revised Standard Version
and Beth-pe'or, and the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth-jesh'imoth,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
and Beth-peor and the slopes of Pisgah and Beth-jeshimoth,

Contextual Overview

¹⁵ And Moses gave their heritage to the tribe of Reuben by their families. ¹⁶ Their limit was from Aroer, on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the town in the middle of the valley, and all the table-land by Medeba; ¹⁷ Heshbon and all her towns in the table-land; Dibon, and Bamoth-baal, and Beth-baal-meon; ¹⁸ And Jahaz, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath; ¹⁹ And Kiriathaim, and Sibmah, and Zereth-shahar in the mountain of the valley; ²⁰ And Beth-peor, and the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth-jeshimoth; ²¹ And all the towns of the table-land, and all the kingdom of Sihon, king of the Amorites, who was ruling in Heshbon, whom Moses overcame, together with the chiefs of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, the chiefs of Sihon, who were living in the land. ²² And Balaam, the son of Beor, the prophet, the children of Israel put to death with the sword. ²³ And the limit of the children of Reuben was the edge of Jordan. This was the heritage of the children of Reuben by their families, with its towns and its unwalled places.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Bethpeor: Numbers 25:3, Deuteronomy 4:46

Ashdothpisgah: or, springs of Pisgah, or, the hill, Joshua 12:3, Deuteronomy 3:17

Bethjeshimoth: Numbers 33:49, Ezekiel 25:9

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 4:49 - under the springs

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Bethpeor,.... So called from Peor, the idol of the Moabites, and where very likely there had been a temple built to the honour of it; over against this place was a valley, where Israel abode some time, Deuteronomy 3:29;

and Ashdodpisgah; of which see Deuteronomy 3:17;

and Bethjeshimoth; of which see Numbers 33:49.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The writer appends to the command of God Joshua 13:1-7 a statement that the other two tribes and a half had already had their inheritance marked out for them by Moses in the land east of Jordan. The boundaries of this territory as a whole are first set forth Joshua 13:8-14, and afterward the portions assigned within it to the two tribes and a half are severally described Joshua 13:15-33.

Joshua 13:14

See Deuteronomy 18:1-5 and notes.

Joshua 13:15-24

Inheritance of the tribe of Reuben. This territory was the most southerly of the trans-Jordanic possessions of Israel, and adjoined Moab, which lay only on the other side of the Arnon. Hence, the Reubenites became in after times much intermixed with the Moabites, who in fact eventually acquired much of the land, and several, if not all, of the cities here named as belonging to Reuben. This acquisition was probably assisted by the fact that the territory north of Arnon had formerly belonged to the Moabites, from whom it was wrested by the Amorites (see Numbers 21:27, etc. notes). It is not likely that the Amorite conquerors had completely extirpated the Moabite inhabitants. Hence, in the days when the Reubenites became engrossed in their pastoral pursuits, and probably not very long after the days of Joshua, the Moabites easily encroached on their inheritance, and in the end probably reoccupied nearly the whole of the ancient kingdom of Sihon (Compare Deuteronomy 33:6 note).

Joshua 13:17-21

See the marginal references for some of these names. Heshbon, Kedemoth, and Mephaath became eventually Levitical cities.

Joshua 13:21

Dukes of Sihon - Rather “vassals of Sihon,” probably those “dedicated” or “appointed” with a libation.

Joshua 13:23

Jordan ... - i. e. the Jordan and its territory (compare similar expressions in Numbers 34:6; Deuteronomy 3:16). The portion of the tribe of Reuben at its northern extremity touched the Jordan; the main part of his inheritance lay on the east of the Dead Sea.

Joshua 13:25

All the cities of Gilead - i. e. of Gilead in the narrower sense, included in the territory of Sihon, and distinct from Bashan Deuteronomy 3:10.

Half the land of the children of Ammon - i. e. that half of the Ammonite territory which had been conquered by the Amorites. This, after the overthrow of Sihon, the Israelites took for their own. The land which the Ammonites still held in the days of Moses, the Israelites were not permitted to attack.

Rabbah was a border fortress, the principal stronghold of the Ammonites Numbers 21:24, and the residence of their king. It was attacked and taken by Joab 2 Samuel 11:0; 2 Samuel 12:0; 1 Chronicles 20:1, but appears in later times again as an Ammonitish city Jeremiah 49:3; Ezekiel 25:5; Amos 1:13-15. In the third century B.C. it received from Ptolemy Philadelplus the name of Philadelphia, and was in later times the seat of a Christian bishop; but has now for many centuries been in ruins, remarkable for their grandeur and extent.

Joshua 13:26

The border of Debir - Rather perhaps “the border of Lidbir,” which is regarded as identical with the Lo-debar of 2 Samuel 9:4; 2 Samuel 17:27, one of the towns from which provisions were brought to David at Mahanaim Genesis 32:2.

Joshua 13:29-33

On the conquest of Bashan, see especially Numbers 32:33, etc. and notes.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joshua 13:20. Beth-peor — The house or temple of Peor, situated at the foot of the mountain of the same name. See Numbers 25:3.