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New American Standard Bible (1995)

Joshua 13:15

So Moses gave an inheritance to the tribe of the sons of Reuben according to their families.

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.
Contemporary English Version
Moses gave land to each of the clans in the Reuben tribe.
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.)

Contextual Overview

15 So Moses gave an inheritance to the tribe of the sons of Reuben according to their families.16 Their territory was from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, with the city which is in the middle of the valley and all the plain by Medeba; 17 Heshbon, and all its cities which are on the plain: Dibon and Bamoth-baal and Beth-baal-meon, 18 and Jahaz and Kedemoth and Mephaath, 19 and Kiriathaim and Sibmah and Zereth-shahar on the hill of the valley, 20 and Beth-peor and the slopes of Pisgah and Beth-jeshimoth, 21 even all the cities of the plain and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses struck with the chiefs of Midian, Evi and Rekem and Zur and Hur and Reba, the princes of Sihon, who lived in the land. 22 The sons of Israel also killed Balaam the son of Beor, the diviner, with the sword among the rest of their slain. 23 The border of the sons of Reuben was the Jordan. This was the inheritance of the sons of Reuben according to their families, the cities and their villages.

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
The LORD appeared to Abram and said, "To your descendants I will give this land." So he built an altar there to the LORD who had appeared to him.
Genesis 13:1
So Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, he and his wife and all that belonged to him, and Lot with him.
Genesis 13:2
Now Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver and in gold.
Genesis 13:3
He went on his journeys from the Negev as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,
Genesis 13:4
to the place of the altar which he had made there formerly; and there Abram called on the name of the LORD.
Genesis 13:7
And there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock. Now the Canaanite and the Perizzite were dwelling then in the land.
Genesis 13:8
So Abram said to Lot, "Please let there be no strife between you and me, nor between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are brothers.
Genesis 13:9
"Is not the whole land before you? Please separate from me; if to the left, then I will go to the right; or if to the right, then I will go to the left."
Genesis 13:12
Abram settled in the land of Canaan, while Lot settled in the cities of the valley, and moved his tents as far as Sodom.
Genesis 15:18
On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your descendants I have given this land, From the river of Egypt as far as the great river, the river Euphrates:

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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