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Contemporary English Version

Joshua 13:15

Moses gave land to each of the clans in the Reuben tribe.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Amorites;   Reubenites;   Topography;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Amorites, the;   Reuben, the Tribe of;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Gad;   Heshbon;   Manasseh, tribe of;   Reuben;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Land (of Israel);   Easton Bible Dictionary - Reuben, Tribe of;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ar;   Ashtaroth;   Numbers, the Book of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Joshua, the Book of;   Moab and the Moabite Stone;   Tribes of Israel, the;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Gad;   Joshua;   Medeba;   Numbers, Book of;   Priests and Levites;   Reuben;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Heshbon;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Village;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Joshua, Book of;   Reuben;   Siddim, Vale of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Gad;   Moab;   Reuben, Tribe of;   War;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
To the tribe of Reuben’s descendants by their clans, Moses gave
Hebrew Names Version
Moshe gave to the tribe of the children of Re'uven according to their families.
King James Version
And Moses gave unto the tribe of the children of Reuben inheritance according to their families.
Lexham English Bible
Moses gave an inheritance to the tribe of the descendants of Reuben according to their families.
English Standard Version
And Moses gave an inheritance to the tribe of the people of Reuben according to their clans.
New Century Version
Moses had given each family group from the tribe of Reuben some land:
New English Translation
Moses assigned land to the tribe of Reuben by its clans.
Amplified Bible
So Moses gave an inheritance to the tribe of the sons of Reuben according to their families.
New American Standard Bible
So Moses gave an inheritance to the tribe of the sons of Reuben according to their families.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Moses then gaue vnto the tribe of the children of Reuben inheritance, according to their families.
Legacy Standard Bible
So Moses gave an inheritance to the tribe of the sons of Reuben according to their families.
Complete Jewish Bible
Moshe gave land to the tribe of the descendants of Re'uven by clans.
Darby Translation
And Moses gave [a portion] to the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their families.
Easy-to-Read Version
Moses had given each family group from the tribe of Reuben some land. This is the land they received:
George Lamsa Translation
And Moses gave an inheritance to the tribe of the Reubenites according to their families.
Good News Translation
Moses had given a part of the land to the families of the tribe of Reuben as their possession.
Literal Translation
And Moses gave to the tribe of the sons of Reuben, for their families;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
So Moses gaue vnto the trybe of ye children of Ruben after their kynreds,
American Standard Version
And Moses gave unto the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their families.
Bible in Basic English
And Moses gave their heritage to the tribe of Reuben by their families.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Moyses gaue vnto the tribe of the children of Ruben inheritaunce, according to their kinredes:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Moses gave unto the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their families.
King James Version (1611)
And Moses gaue vnto the tribe of the children of Reuben inheritance according to their families:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Moses gave the land to the tribe of Ruben according to their families.
English Revised Version
And Moses gave unto the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their families.
Berean Standard Bible
This is what Moses had given to the clans of the tribe of Reuben:
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor Moises yaf possessioun to the lynage of the sones of Ruben, bi her kynredis;
Young's Literal Translation
And Moses giveth to the tribe of the sons of Reuben, for their families;
Update Bible Version
And Moses gave to the tribe of the sons of Reuben according to their families.
Webster's Bible Translation
And Moses gave to the tribe of the children of Reuben [inheritance] according to their families.
World English Bible
Moses gave to the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their families.
New King James Version
And Moses had given to the tribe of the children of Reuben an inheritance according to their families.
New Living Translation
Moses had assigned the following area to the clans of the tribe of Reuben.
New Life Bible
Moses gave land to the family group of the Reubenites by their families.
New Revised Standard
Moses gave an inheritance to the tribe of the Reubenites according to their clans.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thus then Moses gave an inheritance unto the tribe of the sons of Reuben by their families;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Moses gave a possession to the children of Ruben according to their kindreds.
Revised Standard Version
And Moses gave an inheritance to the tribe of the Reubenites according to their families.
THE MESSAGE
To the tribe of Reuben, clan by clan, Moses gave: the land from Aroer at the edge of the Arnon Gorge and the town in the middle of the valley, including the tableland around Medeba; Heshbon on the tableland with all its towns (Dibon, Bamoth Baal, Beth Baal Meon, Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath, Kiriathaim, Sibmah, Zereth Shahar on Valley Mountain, Beth Peor, the slopes of Pisgah, Beth Jeshimoth); and all the cities of the tableland, the whole kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who ruled at Heshbon, whom Moses put to death along with the princes of Midian: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, who lived in that country, all puppets of Sihon. (In addition to those killed in battle, Balaam son of Beor, the soothsayer, was put to death by the People of Israel.)
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So Moses gave an inheritance to the tribe of the sons of Reuben according to their families.

Contextual Overview

15 Moses gave land to each of the clans in the Reuben tribe. 16 Their land started in the south at the town in the middle of the Arnon River valley, took in the town of Aroer on the northern edge of the valley, and went as far north as the flatlands around Medeba. 17The Amorite King Sihon had lived in Heshbon and had ruled the towns in the flatlands. Now Heshbon belonged to Reuben, and so did the following towns in the flatlands: Dibon, Bamoth-Baal, Beth-Baal-Meon, Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath, Kiriathaim, Sibmah, Zereth-Shahar on the hill in the valley, Beth-Peor, Slopes of Mount Pisgah, and Beth-Jeshimoth. Moses defeated Sihon and killed him and the Midianite chiefs who ruled parts of his kingdom for him. Their names were Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba. 22 The Israelites also killed Balaam the son of Beor, who had been a fortuneteller. 23 This region with its towns and villages was the land for the Reuben tribe, and the Jordan River was its western border.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Exodus 6:14 - these be Joshua 22:4 - get Judges 11:20 - General 1 Chronicles 5:8 - Aroer Ezekiel 48:6 - Reuben

Cross-References

Genesis 12:7
but the Lord appeared to Abram and promised, "I will give this land to your family forever." Abram then built an altar there for the Lord .
Genesis 13:1
Abram and Sarai took everything they owned and went to the Southern Desert. Lot went with them.
Genesis 13:2
Abram was very rich. He owned many cattle, sheep, and goats, and had a lot of silver and gold.
Genesis 13:3
Abram moved from place to place in the Southern Desert. And finally, he went north and set up his tents between Bethel and Ai,
Genesis 13:4
where he had earlier camped and built an altar. There he worshiped the Lord .
Genesis 13:8
Abram said to Lot, "We are close relatives. We shouldn't argue, and our men shouldn't be fighting one another.
Genesis 13:9
There is plenty of land for you to choose from. Let's separate. If you go north, I'll go south; if you go south, I'll go north."
Genesis 13:12
Abram stayed in the land of Canaan. But Lot settled near the cities of the valley and put up his tents not far from Sodom,
Genesis 15:18
At that time the Lord made an agreement with Abram and told him: I will give your descendants the land east of the Shihor River on the border of Egypt as far as the Euphrates River.
Genesis 18:18
since his family will become a great and powerful nation that will be a blessing to all other nations on earth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Moses gave unto the tribe of the children of Reuben [inheritance] according to their families. According to the number of them, and sufficient for them.

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.


 
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