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Chapter 12
1The following are the local kings whom the Israelites defeated and whose territories they took possession of:East of the Jordan, from the Wadi Arnon to Mount Hermon, including the eastern half of the Arabah:
2King Sihon of the Amorites, who resided in Heshbon and ruled over part of Gilead—from Aroer on the bank of the Wadi Arnon and the wadi proper up to the Wadi Jabbok [and] the border of the Ammonites—
3and over the eastern Arabah up to the Sea of Chinnereth and, southward by way of Beth-jeshimoth at the foot of the slopes of Pisgah on the east, down to the Sea of the Arabah, that is, the Dead Sea.
4Also the territory of King Og of Bashan—one of the last of the Rephaim—who resided in Ashtaroth and in Edrei
5and ruled over Mount Hermon, Salcah, and all of Bashan up to the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, as also over part of Gilead [down to] the border of King Sihon of Heshbon.
6These were vanquished by Moses, the servant of the LORD, and the Israelites; and Moses, the servant of the LORD, assigned that territory as a possession to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.
7And the following are the local kings whom Joshua and the Israelites defeated on the west side of the Jordan—from Baal-gad in the Valley of the Lebanon to Mount Halak, which ascends to Seir—which Joshua assigned as a possession to the tribal divisions of Israel:
8in the hill country, in the lowlands, in the Arabah, in the slopes, in the wilderness, and in the Negeb—[in the land of] the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
9They were:the king of Jericho1the king of Ai, near Bethel,1
10the king of Jerusalem1the king of Hebron1
11the king of Jarmuth1the king of Lachish1
12the king of Eglon1the king of Gezer1
13the king of Debir1the king of Geder1
14the king of Hormah1the king of Arad1
15the king of Libnah1the king of Adullam1
16the king of Makkedah1the king of Bethel1
17the king of Tappuah1the king of Hepher1
18the king of Aphek1the king of Sharon1
19the king of Madon1the king of Hazor1
20the king of Shimron-meron1the king of Achshaph1
21the king of Taanach1the king of Megiddo✦1
22the king of Kedesh1the king of Jokneam in the Carmel1
23the king of Dor in the district of Dor1the king of Goiim in Gilgal1
24the king of Tirzah1Total number of kings31.
Translation: Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures (Jewish Publication Society, 1985), via Sefaria, used under CC BY-NC.
Paragraph divisions follow the Masoretic text (Miqra according to the Masorah, CC BY-SA).