Joshua 13:18

Bishop's Bible

And Iahazah, and Redemoth, and Mephaath.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath,

Hebrew Names Version
and Yahatz, and Kedemot, and Mefa`at,

King James Version
And Jahaza, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath,

Lexham English Bible
Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath,

English Standard Version
and Jahaz, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath,

New Century Version
Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath,

New English Translation
Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath,

Amplified Bible
and Jahaz and Kedemoth and Mephaath,

New American Standard Bible
Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath,

Geneva Bible (1587)
And Iahazah, and Kedemoth & Mephaath:

Legacy Standard Bible
and Jahaz and Kedemoth and Mephaath,

Complete Jewish Bible
Yahatz, K'demot, Mefa‘at,

Darby Translation
And Jahzah, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath,

Easy-to-Read Version
Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath,

George Lamsa Translation
And Jahaz and Kermoth and Aenath

Good News Translation
Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath,

Literal Translation
and Jahazah, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Iahza, Kedemoth, Mephaath,

American Standard Version
and Jahaz, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath,

Bible in Basic English
And Jahaz, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath;

JPS Old Testament (1917)
and Jahaz, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath;

King James Version (1611)
And Iahazah, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and Basan, and Bakedmoth, and Maephaad,

English Revised Version
and Jahaz, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath;

Berean Standard Bible
Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and Gesa, and Sedymoth, and Mephe,

Young's Literal Translation
and Jahazah, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath,

Update Bible Version
and Jahaz, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath,

Webster's Bible Translation
And Jahaza, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath,

World English Bible
and Jahaz, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath,

New King James Version
Jahaza, Kedemoth, Mephaath,

New Living Translation
Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath,

New Life Bible
Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath,

New Revised Standard
and Jahaz, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and Jahaz and Kedemoth and Maphaath;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Jassa, and Cidimoth, and Mephaath,

Revised Standard Version
and Jahaz, and Ked'emoth, and Meph'aath,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
and Jahaz and Kedemoth and Mephaath,

Contextual Overview

¹⁵ Moyses gaue vnto the tribe of the children of Ruben inheritaunce, according to their kinredes: ¹⁶ And their coast was from Aroer that lyeth on the bancke of the riuer Arnon, and from the citie that is in the middest of the riuer, and all the playne which is by Medeba: ¹⁷ Hesbon, with all their townes that lye in the playne: Dibon and the hill places of Baal, and the house of Baalmeon, ¹⁸ And Iahazah, and Redemoth, and Mephaath. ¹⁹ Kiriathaim, Sabamath, and Zarath Zahar, in the mount of the valley, ²⁰ The house of Peor, and the springes of the hilles, and Bethpheor, and Ashdoth Pisgah, and Besiesimoth: ²¹ And al the cities of the plaine, and all the kingdome of Sehon king of the Amorites, which raigned in Hesbon, which Moyses smote, with the lordes of Madian, Eui, Bekem, Zur, and Hur, & Keba, the whiche were dukes of Sehon, dwelling in the countrey. ²² And Balaam also the sonne of Beor the soothsayer, did the childre of Israel slay with the sworde among other of them that were slayne. ²³ And the border of the children of Ruben, was Iordane, with the countrey that lieth theron. This was the inheritaunce of the children of Ruben after their kinredes, cities, and villages perteyning therto.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Jahaza: A city near Medeba and Dibon, afterwards given to the Levites. Joshua 21:36, Joshua 21:37, Numbers 21:23, Jahaz, 1 Chronicles 6:78, 1 Chronicles 6:79, Jahzah

Kedemoth: Supposed to have been situated east of the Arnon.

Mephaath: Situated near the desert, east of Moab. In the time of Eusebius, he says the Romans kept a garrison there.

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 2:26 - Kedemoth Isaiah 15:4 - Jahaz Jeremiah 48:21 - Jahazah

Cross-References

Genesis 8:20
And Noah builded an aulter vnto ye Lorde, and tooke of euery cleane beast, and of euery cleane foule, & offred burnt offering on the aulter

Genesis 13:4
Euen vnto the place of the aulter whiche he had made there at the first, and there Abram called on the name of the Lorde.

Genesis 13:7
And there fell a stryfe betwene the heardmen of Abrams cattell, and the heardmen of Lottes cattell: Moreouer, the Chanaanites, and Pherisites dwelled at that tyme in the lande.

Genesis 13:8
Then sayde Abram vnto Lot: let there be no strife I pray thee betweene thee and me, and betweene my heardmen and thyne, for we be brethren.

Genesis 14:13
And there came one that had escaped, and tolde Abram the Hebrewe, whiche dwelled in the playne of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eschol, and brother of Aner, whiche were confederate with Abram.

Genesis 18:1
And the Lorde appeared vnto hym in the playne of Mamre, and he sate in his tent doore in the heate of the day.

Genesis 23:2
And Sara dyed in Ciriath arba, the same is Hebron, in the lande of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourne for Sara, and to weepe for her.

Genesis 35:27
And so Iacob came vnto Isahac his father to Mamre, vnto Ciriath-arba, whiche is Hebron, where Abraham and Isahac dwelt.

Genesis 37:14
He aunswered: here am I. And he sayde vnto hym: Go [I praye thee] see whether it be well with thy brethren and the cattell, and bryng me worde agayne. And so he sent hym out of the vale of Hebron, & he came to Sichem.

Numbers 13:22
And they ascended vnto the south, and come vnto Hebron, where Ahiman was and Sesai, and Thalmai, the sonnes of Anac. Hebron was buylt seuen yeres before Zoan in Egypt.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Jahazah,.... Called Jahaz, Numbers 21:23, where the battle was fought between Sihon and Israel:

and Kedemoth; near to which was a wilderness, which took its name from it, from whence Moses sent messengers with words of peace to Sihon, Deuteronomy 2:26;

and Mephaath; thought to be the Maipha of Ptolemy f; here Jerom says g, in his time was a garrison of Roman soldiers, because of the desert that was near. It was a city, with its suburbs, given to the Levites, as were the two preceding, Joshua 21:36; Adrichomius h takes it to be the same with Malle, which, Josephus says, i was called the city of the strangers.

f Geograph. l. 6. c. 7. g De loc Heb. fol. 93. D. h Theatrum Ter. Sanct. p. 179. i Antiqu. l. 12. c. 8. sect. 3.

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 13:18. Jahaza — A city near Medeba and Dibon. It was given to the Levites, 1 Chronicles 6:78.

Kedemoth — Mentioned Deuteronomy 2:26; supposed to have been situated beyond the river Arnon.

Mephaath — Situated on the frontiers of Moab, on the eastern part of the desert. It was given to the Levites, Joshua 21:37.