New English [1970], THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE) [word count] [B16000].
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1 These are the names of the kings of the land whom the Israelites
slew, and whose territory they occupied beyond the Jordan towards the
sunrise from the gorge of the Arnon as far as Mount Hermon and all
the Arabah on the east.
2 Sihon the Amorite king who lived in Heshbon:
his rule extended from Aroer, which is on the edge of the gorge of the
Arnon, along the middle of the gorge and over half Gilead as far as the
gorge of the Jabbok, the Ammonite frontier;
3 along the Arabah as far
as the eastern side of the Sea of Kinnereth and as far as the eastern side
of the Sea of the Arabah, the Dead Sea, by the road to Beth-jeshimoth
and from Teman under the watershed of Pisgah.
4 Og note king of Bashan,
one of the survivors of the Rephaim, who lived in Ashtaroth and Edrei:
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Israel's entry into the promised land
he ruled over Mount Hermon,
5 Salcah, all Bashan as far as the Geshurite
and Maacathite borders, and half Gilead as far as note the boundary of
Sihon king of Heshbon.
6 Moses the servant of the Lord put them to
death, he and the Israelites, and he gave their land to the Reubenites,
the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh, as their possession.
7 These are the names of the kings whom Joshua and the Israelites put
to death beyond the Jordan to the west, from Baal-gad in the Vale of
Lebanon as far as the bare mountain that leads up to Seir. Joshua gave
their land to the Israelite tribes to be their possession according to their
allotted shares,
8 in the hill-country, the Shephelah, the Arabah, the
watersheds, the wilderness, and the Negeb; lands of the Hittites,
Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
9 The king of
Jericho;
10 the king of Ai which is beside Bethel; the king of Jerusalem;
the king of Hebron;
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12 the king of Jarmuth; the king of Lachish; the
king of Eglon;
13 the king of Gezer; the king of Debir; the king of Geder;
the king of Hormah;
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15 the king of Arad; the king of Libnah; the king of
Adullam;
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17 the king of Makkedah; the king of Bethel; the king of
Tappuah;
18 the king of Hepher; the king of Aphek; the king of Aphek note-in-Sharon;
the king of Madon;
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20 the king of Hazor; the king of Shimronmeron; note
king of Akshaph;
21 the king of Taanach; the king of
Megiddo;
22 the king of Kedesh; the king of Jokneam-in-Carmel;
the king of Dor in the district of Dor;
23 the king of Gaiam-in-Galilee; note
the king of Tirzah:
24 thirty-one kings in all, one of each town.
New English [1970], THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE) [word count] [B16000].
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