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Territory East of the Jordan

12 The Israelites struck down the following kings of the land and took possession of their land beyond the Jordan to the east and from the River Arnon to Mount Hermon, including all the Arabah eastwards:(A)

King Sihon of the Amorites lived in Heshbon. He ruled from Aroer(B) on the rim of the River Arnon, along the middle of the valley, and half of Gilead up to the River Jabbok (the border of the Ammonites(C)), the Arabah east of the Sea of Chinnereth[a] to the Sea of Arabah (that is, the Dead Sea), eastwards along the Beth-jeshimoth road(D) and southwards[b] below the slopes of Pisgah.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. 12:3 = Galilee
  2. 12:3 Or and from Teman