Joshua 13:19

Easy-to-Read Version

Kiriathaim, Sibmah, Zereth Shahar on the hill in the valley,

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Kiriathaim, Sibmah, Zereth-shahar on the hill in the valley,

Hebrew Names Version
and Kiryatayim, and Sivmah, and Tzeret-Hashachar in the mount of the valley,

King James Version
And Kirjathaim, and Sibmah, and Zarethshahar in the mount of the valley,

Lexham English Bible
Kiriathaim, Sibmah, and Zereth Shahar on the hill of the valley;

English Standard Version
and Kiriathaim, and Sibmah, and Zereth-shahar on the hill of the valley,

New Century Version
Kiriathaim, Sibmah, Zereth Shahar on the hill in the valley,

New English Translation
Kiriathaim, Sibmah, Zereth Shahar on the hill in the valley,

Amplified Bible
and Kiriathaim and Sibmah and Zereth-shahar on the hill of the valley,

New American Standard Bible
Kiriathaim, Sibmah, Zereth-shahar on the hill of the valley,

Geneva Bible (1587)
Kiriathaim also, and Sibmah, and Zerethshahar in the mount of Emek:

Legacy Standard Bible
and Kiriathaim and Sibmah and Zereth-shahar on the hill of the valley,

Complete Jewish Bible
Kiryatayim, Sivmah, Tzeret-Shachar at the top of the valley,

Darby Translation
and Kirjathaim, and Sibmah, and Zereth-shahar in the mountain of the vale,

George Lamsa Translation
And Koriathaim and Shammah and Jazreth and Seir on the mount of the valley

Good News Translation
Kiriathaim, Sibmah, Zereth Shahar on the hill in the valley,

Literal Translation
and Kirjath-aim, and Sibmah, and Zareth-shahar in the mountain of the valley;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Kiriathaim, Sibama, Zeretha Sahar, vpon mount Emek,

American Standard Version
and Kiriathaim, and Sibmah, and Zereth-shahar in the mount of the valley,

Bible in Basic English
And Kiriathaim, and Sibmah, and Zereth-shahar in the mountain of the valley;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Kiriathaim, Sabamath, and Zarath Zahar, in the mount of the valley,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
and Kiriathaim, and Sibmah, and Zerethshahar in the mount of the valley;

King James Version (1611)
And Kiriathaim, and Sibmah, and Zareth-shahar, in the mount of the valley,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and Kariathaim, and Sebama, and Serada, and Sion in mount Enab;

English Revised Version
and Kiriathaim, and Sibmah, and Zereth-shahar in the mount of the valley;

Berean Standard Bible
Kiriathaim, Sibmah, Zereth-shahar on the hill in the valley,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and Cariathaym, and Sabana, and Sarathaphar, in the hil of the valey of Betheroeth,

Young's Literal Translation
and Kirjathaim, and Sibmah, and Zareth-Shahar, in the mount of the valley,

Update Bible Version
and Kiriathaim, and Sibmah, and Zereth-shahar in the mount of the valley,

Webster's Bible Translation
And Kirjathaim, and Sibmah, and Zareth-shahar in the mount of the valley,

World English Bible
and Kiriathaim, and Sibmah, and Zereth-shahar in the mount of the valley,

New King James Version
Kirjathaim, Sibmah, Zereth Shahar on the mountain of the valley,

New Living Translation
Kiriathaim, Sibmah, Zereth-shahar on the hill above the valley,

New Life Bible
Kiriathaim, Sibmah. There was Zereth-shahar on the hill of the valley,

New Revised Standard
and Kiriathaim, and Sibmah, and Zereth-shahar on the hill of the valley,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and Kiriathaim and Sibmah, and Zareth-shahar on the mount of the vale;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Cariathaim, and Sabama, and Sarathasar in the mountain of the valley.

Revised Standard Version
and Kir'iatha'im, and Sibmah, and Zer'eth-sha'har on the hill of the valley,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
and Kiriathaim and Sibmah and Zereth-shahar on the hill of the valley,

Contextual Overview

¹⁵ Moses had given each family group from the tribe of Reuben some land. This is the land they received: ¹⁶ It was the land from Aroer near the Arnon Ravine to the town of Medeba. This included the whole plain and the town in the middle of the ravine. ¹⁷ The land continued to Heshbon. It included all the towns on the plain. Those towns were Dibon, Bamoth Baal, Beth Baal Meon, ¹⁸ Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath, ¹⁹ Kiriathaim, Sibmah, Zereth Shahar on the hill in the valley, ²⁰ Beth Peor, the hills of Pisgah, and Beth Jeshimoth. ²¹ So that land included all the towns on the plain and all the area that King Sihon of the Amorites had ruled. He ruled in the town of Heshbon, but Moses had defeated him and the leaders of the Midianites. Those leaders were Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba. (They all fought together with Sihon.) All of them lived in that country. ²² The Israelites defeated Balaam son of Beor. (Balaam tried to use magic to tell the future.) The Israelites killed many people during the fighting. ²³ The land that was given to Reuben stopped at the shore of the Jordan River. So the land that was given to the family groups of Reuben included all these towns and their fields that were listed.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

And Kirjathaim: This city, according to Eusebius, was situated ten miles west of Medeba. Numbers 32:37, Numbers 32:38, Sibman, Called Shibmah, Numbers 32:38, and celebrated for its vines Jeremiah 48:32. Isaiah 16:8, Isaiah 16:9, on which last place, Jerome says, there were scarcely 500 paces between it and Heshbon.

Reciprocal: Genesis 14:5 - Shaveh Kiriathaim Jeremiah 48:23 - Kiriathaim Ezekiel 25:9 - Baalmeon

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Kirjathaim,.... Of which :-;

and Sibmah; of which :- and

:-;

and Zarethshahar, in the mount of the valley; which was built on one of the mountains that looked over the valley of Moab, as did Nebo, Pisgah, Abarim; perhaps it is the same place Josephus k calls Zara, to which he joins the valley of the Cilicians, and mentions it along with Heshbon, Medeba, and other cities of Moab; according to Adrichomius l, it was in the mount of the valley of Bethpeor, which next follows.

k Antiqu. l. 13. c. 15. sect. 4. l Ut supra, (Theatrum Ter. Sanct.) p. 130.

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 13:19. Kirjathaim — This city, according to Eusebius, was nine miles distant from Medeba, towards the east. It passed from the Emim to the Moabites, from the Moabites to the Amorites, and from the Amorites to the Israelites, Genesis 14:6; Deuteronomy 2:20. Calmet supposes the Reubenites possessed it till the time they were carried away by the Assyrians; and then the Moabites appear to have taken possession of it anew, as he collects from Jeremiah 48:1 c., and Ezekiel 25:9 &c.

Sibmah — A place remarkable for its vines. See Isaiah 16:8-9, Jeremiah 48:32.

Zareth-shahar, in the mount of the valley — This probably means a town situated on or near to a hill in some flat country.