The Scriptures (ISR 1998) 1And these are the sovereigns of the land whom the children of Yisra’ĕl smote, and whose land they possessed beyond the Yardĕn towards the sun-rising, from the wadi Arnon to Mount Ḥermon, and all the desert plain eastward: 2Siḥon sovereign of the Amorites, who dwelt in Ḥeshbon, ruling from Aro‛ĕr, which is on the bank of the wadi Arnon, from the middle of that wadi, and half Gil‛aḏ, even as far as the wadi Yabboq, the border of the children of Ammon, 3and the desert plain from the Sea of Kinneroth eastward as far as the Sea of the Araḇah, the Salt Sea, the way to Bĕyth Yeshimoth, and southward below the slopes of Pisgah, 4and the border of Og̅, sovereign of Bashan, who was of the remnant of the Repha’ites, who dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Eḏre‛i, 5and ruled in Mount Ḥermon, and in Salḵah, and in all Bashan, as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Ma‛aḵathites, and the half of Gil‛aḏ as far as the border of Siḥon sovereign of Ḥeshbon. 6Mosheh the servant of יהוה and the children of Yisra’ĕl had smitten them. And Mosheh the servant of יהוה had given it as a possession to the Re’uḇĕnites, and to the Gaḏites, and to half the tribe of Menashsheh. 7And these are the sovereigns of the land which Yehoshua and the children of Yisra’ĕl smote beyond the Yardĕn, on the west, from Ba‛al Gaḏ in the Valley of Leḇanon as far as Mount Ḥalaq that goes up to Sĕ‛ir, which Yehoshua gave to the tribes of Yisra’ĕl as a possession according to their divisions, 8in the mountain country, and in the low country, and in the desert plain, and in the slopes, and in the wilderness, and in the South, the Ḥittites, the Amorites and the Kena‛anites, the Perizzites, the Ḥiwwites, and the Yeḇusites: 9the sovereign of Yeriḥo, one; the sovereign of Ai, which is beside Bĕyth Ěl, one; 10the sovereign of Yerushalayim, one; the sovereign of Ḥeḇron, one; 11the sovereign of Yarmuth, one; the sovereign of Laḵish, one; 12the sovereign of Eg̅lon, one; the sovereign of Gezer, one; 13the sovereign of Deḇir, one; the sovereign of Geḏer, one; 14the sovereign of Ḥormah, one; the sovereign of Araḏ, one; 15the sovereign of Liḇnah, one; the sovereign of Aḏullam, one; 16the sovereign of Maqqĕḏah, one; the sovereign of Bĕyth Ěl, one; 17the sovereign of Tappuwaḥ, one; the sovereign of Ḥĕpher, one; 18the sovereign of Aphĕq, one; the sovereign of Sharon, one; 19the sovereign of Maḏon, one; the sovereign of Ḥatsor, one; 20the sovereign of Shimron Mĕron, one; the sovereign of Aḵshaph, one; 21the sovereign of Ta‛anaḵ, one; the sovereign of Meg̅iddo, one; 22the sovereign of Qeḏesh, one; the sovereign of Yoqne‛am in Karmel, one; 23the sovereign of Dor in the heights of Dor, one; the sovereign of the nations of Gilgal, one; 24the sovereign of Tirtsah, one – thirty-one sovereigns in all. |