Joshua 13:18

Easy-to-Read Version

Jahaz, Kedemoth, 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,

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;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Iahazah, and Redemoth, 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 Moses had given each family group from the tribe of Reuben some land. This is the land they received: ¹⁶ It was the land from Aroer near the Arnon Ravine to the town of Medeba. This included the whole plain and the town in the middle of the ravine. ¹⁷ The land continued to Heshbon. It included all the towns on the plain. Those towns were Dibon, Bamoth Baal, Beth Baal Meon, ¹⁸ Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath, ¹⁹ Kiriathaim, Sibmah, Zereth Shahar on the hill in the valley, ²⁰ Beth Peor, the hills of Pisgah, and Beth Jeshimoth. ²¹ So that land included all the towns on the plain and all the area that King Sihon of the Amorites had ruled. He ruled in the town of Heshbon, but Moses had defeated him and the leaders of the Midianites. Those leaders were Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba. (They all fought together with Sihon.) All of them lived in that country. ²² The Israelites defeated Balaam son of Beor. (Balaam tried to use magic to tell the future.) The Israelites killed many people during the fighting. ²³ The land that was given to Reuben stopped at the shore of the Jordan River. So the land that was given to the family groups of Reuben included all these towns and their fields that were listed.

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
Then Noah built an altar to honor the Lord . Noah took some of all the clean birds and some of all the clean animals and burned them on the altar as a gift to God.

Genesis 13:4
This was where Abram had built an altar earlier. So he worshiped the Lord there.

Genesis 13:7
(The Canaanites and the Perizzites were also living in this land at the same time.) The shepherds of Abram and Lot began to argue.

Genesis 13:8
So Abram said to Lot, "There should be no arguing between you and me or between your people and my people. We are all brothers.

Genesis 14:13
One of the men who had escaped went to Abram the Hebrew and told him what happened. Abram was camped near the trees of Mamre the Amorite. Mamre, Eshcol, and Aner had made an agreement to help each other, and they had also signed an agreement to help Abram.

Genesis 18:1
Later, the Lord again appeared to Abraham near the oak trees of Mamre. It was the hottest part of the day, and Abraham was sitting at the door of his tent.

Genesis 23:2
She died in the city of Kiriath Arba (Hebron) in the land of Canaan. Abraham was very sad and cried for her there.

Genesis 35:27
Jacob went to his father Isaac at Mamre in Kiriath Arba (Hebron). This is where Abraham and Isaac had lived.

Genesis 37:14
His father said, "Go and see if your brothers are safe. Come back and tell me if my sheep are all fine." So Joseph's father sent him from the Valley of Hebron to Shechem.

Numbers 13:22
They entered the country through the Negev and went to Hebron. (The town of Hebron was built seven years before the town of Zoan in Egypt.) Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai lived there. These men were descendants of Anak.

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.