Joshua 13:10

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.

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;

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,

Young's Literal Translation
and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorite, who reigned in Heshbon, unto the border of the Bene-Ammon,

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 The tribes of Reuben, Gad, and the other half of the tribe of Manasseh had already received all their land. The Lord 's servant, Moses, gave them the land east of the Jordan River. ⁹ Their land started at Aroer by the Arnon Ravine and continued to the town in the middle of the ravine. And it included the whole plain from Medeba to Dibon. ¹⁰ 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. ¹¹ Also the town of Gilead was in that land. And the area where the people of Geshur and Maacah lived was in that land. All of Mount Hermon and all of Bashan as far as Salecah was in that land. ¹² All the kingdom of King Og was in that land. King Og ruled in Bashan. In the past he ruled in Ashtaroth and Edrei. Og was from the Rephaites. In the past Moses had defeated those people and had taken their land. ¹³ The Israelites did not force out the people of Geshur and Maacah. They still live among the Israelites today. ¹⁴ The tribe of Levi is the only tribe that did not get any land. Instead, the Levites were given all the animals offered by fire to the Lord , the God of Israel. That is what the Lord promised them.

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
The woman could see that the tree was beautiful and the fruit looked so good to eat. She also liked the idea that it would make her wise. So she took some of the fruit from the tree and ate it. Her husband was there with her, so she gave him some of the fruit, and he ate it.

Genesis 13:1
So Abram left Egypt. He traveled through the Negev with his wife and everything he owned. Lot was also with them.

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 13:10
Lot looked and saw the whole Jordan Valley. He saw that there was much water there. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. At that time the Jordan Valley all the way to Zoar was like the Lord 's Garden. This was good land, like the land of Egypt.)

Genesis 13:15
All this land that you see I will give to you and your people who live after you. This will be your land forever.

Genesis 13:16
I will make your people so many that they will be like the dust of the earth. If people could count all the particles of dust on earth, they could count your people.

Genesis 13:17
So go. Walk through your land. I now give it to you."

Genesis 14:2
All these kings fought a war against King Bera of Sodom: King Birsha of Gomorrah, King Shinab of Admah, King Shemeber of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela. (Bela is also called Zoar.)

Genesis 14:8
At that time the kings of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboiim, and Bela (Zoar) joined together to fight against their enemies in the Valley of Siddim.

1 Kings 7:46
Solomon never weighed the bronze that was used to make these things. There was too much to weigh. So the total weight of all the bronze was never known. The king ordered these things to be made near the Jordan River between Succoth and Zarethan. They made them by melting the bronze and pouring it into molds in the ground.

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.