Yosua 13:21

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

selanjutnya segala kota di dataran tinggi itu dan seluruh kerajaan Sihon, raja orang Amori, yang memerintah di Hesybon, yang dikalahkan oleh Musa; bersama-sama dia juga dikalahkannya raja-raja Midian, yakni Ewi, Rekem, Zur, Hur dan Reba, raja-raja bawahan Sihon, penduduk negeri itu.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
selanjutnya segala kota di dataran tinggi itu dan seluruh kerajaan Sihon, raja orang Amori, yang memerintah di Hesybon, yang dikalahkan oleh Musa; bersama-sama dia juga dikalahkannya raja-raja Midian, yakni Ewi, Rekem, Zur, Hur dan Reba, raja-raja bawahan Sihon, penduduk negeri itu.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
dan segala negeri di tanah datar, segenap kerajaan Sihon, raja orang Amori, yang dipertuan di Hezbon dan yang dialahkan oleh Musa, baik ia baik segala raja Midian, yaitu Ewi dan Rekem dan Zur dan Hur dan Reba, yang takluk kepada Sihon, semuanya mengeduduki tanah itu,

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

And all the: Deuteronomy 3:10

whom Moses: Numbers 21:24-35, Deuteronomy 2:30-36

with the: Numbers 31:8

Reciprocal: Numbers 22:4 - elders Numbers 25:15 - Zur Joshua 21:39 - Heshbon

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And all the cities of the plain,.... In the champaign country, as well as those in the mountainous part:

and all the kingdom of Sihon; or, as Masius renders the words, "which all had been the kingdom of Sihon"; for the whole kingdom of Sihon was not given to Reuben, only a part of it, and the rest to Gad, as in

Joshua 13:27;

king of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon; as in Joshua 13:10;

whom Moses smote with the princes of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur,

and Hur, and Reba; not at the same time that Sihon was smitten by him, but afterwards in a war with Midian, Numbers 31:8; where their names are given as here; and there they are called kings of Midian, petty kings, and, as it seems by what follows, were subject to Sihon, and therefore are here mentioned:

[which were] dukes of Sihon dwelling in the country; for Midian, as Kimchi supposes, and not without reason, was under the government of Sihon, and these were his nobles, though they dwelt in the land of Midian.

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 13:21. The princes of Midian — See the history of this war, Numbers 31:1, c. and from that place this and the following verse seem to be borrowed, for the introduction of the death of Balaam here seems quite irrelevant.