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Young's Literal Translation

Joshua 13:10

and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorite, who reigned in Heshbon, unto the border of the Bene-Ammon,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ammonites;   Geshur;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Holy Land;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ammon;   Gad;   Manasseh, tribe of;   Reuben;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Land (of Israel);   Easton Bible Dictionary - Manasseh;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Joshua, the Book of;   Numbers, the Book of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Joshua, the Book of;   Tribes of Israel, the;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Joshua;   Medeba;   Priests and Levites;   Sihon;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Heshbon;   Tribes;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Am'orite, the Am'orites;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Joshua, Book of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Heshbon;   War;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
and all the cities of King Sihon of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, to the border of the Ammonites;
Hebrew Names Version
and all the cities of Sichon king of the Amori, who reigned in Heshbon, to the border of the children of `Ammon;
King James Version
And all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, unto the border of the children of Ammon;
Lexham English Bible
and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon up to the border of the Ammonites;
English Standard Version
and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the boundary of the Ammonites;
New Century Version
All the towns ruled by Sihon king of the Amorites, who ruled in the city of Heshbon, were in that land. The land continued to the area where the Ammonites lived.
New English Translation
and all the cities of King Sihon of the Amorites who ruled in Heshbon, and ended at the Ammonite border.
Amplified Bible
and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the border of the Ammonites;
New American Standard Bible
and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the border of the sons of Ammon;
Geneva Bible (1587)
And all the cities of Sihon King of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, vnto the borders of the children of Ammon,
Legacy Standard Bible
and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the border of the sons of Ammon;
Contemporary English Version
and took in the towns that had belonged to Sihon, the Amorite king of Heshbon. Some of these towns were as far east as the Ammonite border.
Complete Jewish Bible
and all the cities of Sichon king of the Emori who ruled in Heshbon to the border with the people of ‘Amon;
Darby Translation
and all the cities of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who reigned at Heshbon, to the border of the children of Ammon;
Easy-to-Read Version
All the towns that King Sihon of the Amorites ruled were in that land. He ruled in the city of Heshbon. The land continued to the area where the Ammonites lived.
George Lamsa Translation
And all the towns of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, to the border of the children of Ammon;
Good News Translation
It went as far as the border of Ammon and included all the cities that had been ruled by the Amorite king Sihon, who had ruled at Heshbon.
Literal Translation
and all the cities of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, to the border of the sons of Ammon;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and all the cities of Sihon the kynge of the Amorites, which, dwelt at Heßbon, vnto the border of the children of Ammon:
American Standard Version
and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, unto the border of the children of Ammon;
Bible in Basic English
And all the towns of Sihon, king of the Amorites, who was ruling in Heshbon, to the limits of the children of Ammon;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And al the cities of Sehon king of the Amorites, which raigned in Hesbon, euen vnto the border of the children of Ammon:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, unto the border of the children of Ammon;
King James Version (1611)
And all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, vnto the border of the children of Ammon:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
All the cities of Seon king of the Amorites, who reigned from Esebon to the coasts of the children of Ammon;
English Revised Version
and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, unto the border of the children of Ammon;
Berean Standard Bible
and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the border of the Ammonites;
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
`til to Dibon, and alle the citees of Seon, kyng of Amorreis, that regnyde in Esebon, `til to the termes of the sones of Amon,
Update Bible Version
and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, to the border of the sons of Ammon;
Webster's Bible Translation
And all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, to the border of the children of Ammon;
World English Bible
and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, to the border of the children of Ammon;
New King James Version
all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the border of the children of Ammon;
New Living Translation
It also included all the towns of King Sihon of the Amorites, who had reigned in Heshbon, and extended as far as the borders of Ammon.
New Life Bible
and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who ruled in Heshbon. And it went as far as the land of the Ammonites,
New Revised Standard
and all the cities of King Sihon of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the boundary of the Ammonites;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and all the cities of Sihon, king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, - as far as the boundary of the sons of Ammon;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And all the cities of Sehon, king of the Amorrhites, who reigned in Hesebon, unto the borders of the children of Ammon.
Revised Standard Version
and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the boundary of the Ammonites;
New American Standard Bible (1995)
and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the border of the sons of Ammon;

Contextual Overview

8 with it the Reubenite, and the Gadite, have received their inheritance, which Moses hath given to them beyond the Jordan eastward, as Moses servant of Jehovah hath given to them; 9 from Aroer, which [is] on the edge of the brook Arnon, and the city which [is] in the midst of the brook, and all the plain of Medeba unto Dihon, 10 and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorite, who reigned in Heshbon, unto the border of the Bene-Ammon, 11 and Gilead, and the border of the Geshurite, and of the Maachathite, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan unto Salcah; 12 all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei; he was left of the remnant of the Rephaim, and Moses doth smite them, and dispossess them; 13 and the sons of Israel dispossessed not the Geshurite, and the Maachathite; and Geshur and Maachath dwell in the midst of Israel unto this day. 14 Only, to the tribe of Levi he hath not given an inheritance; fire-offerings of Jehovah, God of Israel, is its inheritance, as He hath spoken to it.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Numbers 21:24-26

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 1:4 - General Deuteronomy 33:20 - Blessed Joshua 24:8 - General Judges 11:26 - Heshbon

Cross-References

Genesis 3:6
And the woman seeth that the tree [is] good for food, and that it [is] pleasant to the eyes, and the tree is desirable to make [one] wise, and she taketh of its fruit and eateth, and giveth also to her husband with her, and he doth eat;
Genesis 6:2
and sons of God see the daughters of men that they [are] fair, and they take to themselves women of all whom they have chosen.
Genesis 13:1
And Abram goeth up from Egypt (he and his wife, and all that he hath, and Lot with him) towards the south;
Genesis 13:8
And Abram saith unto Lot, `Let there not, I pray thee, be strife between me and thee, and between my shepherds and thy shepherds, for we [are] men -- brethren.
Genesis 13:10
And Lot lifteth up his eyes, and seeth the whole circuit of the Jordan that it [is] all a watered country (before Jehovah's destroying Sodom and Gomorrah, as Jehovah's garden, as the land of Egypt,) in thy coming toward Zoar,
Genesis 13:15
for the whole of the land which thou are seeing, to thee I give it, and to thy seed -- to the age.
Genesis 13:16
And I have set thy seed as dust of the earth, so that, if one is able to number the dust of the earth, even thy seed is numbered;
Genesis 13:17
rise, go up and down through the land, to its length, and to its breadth, for to thee I give it.'
Genesis 14:2
they have made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboim, and the king of Bela, which [is] Zoar.
Genesis 14:8
And the king of Sodom goeth out, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboim, and the king of Bela, which [is] Zoar; and they set the battle in array with them in the valley of Siddim,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon,.... A city he took from the Moabites, and made it his royal seat, Numbers 21:26:

unto the border of the children of Ammon; which was the river Jabbok, Deuteronomy 3:16.

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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