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Joshua 12:5

in Joshua 12

He ruled over Mount Hermon, Salecah, all of Bashan up to the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and half of Gilead to the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

and ruled in mount Hermon, and in Salecah, and in all Bashan, unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.

KJV

And reigned in mount Hermon, and in Salcah, and in all Bashan, unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.

This verse in Joshua 12

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

The border of the Geshurites - The country of Bashan, in the days of Moses and Joshua, extended from the river Jabbok on the south to the frontiers of the Geshurites and Maachathites on the north, to the foot of the mountains of Hermon.

This site's exposition

the coast of Og king

on Joshua 12:4-6

Og is identified by what he was left over from, the remnant of the giants, and one of his two seats is Ashtaroth, where Genesis 14:5 puts the Rephaims that Chedorlaomer struck generations before Abraham entered the land. Deuteronomy 3:11 is the only place that gives a measure of him, an iron bedstead nine cubits long kept at Rabbath of the children of Ammon. Verse 6 calls Moses the servant of the Lord twice in one sentence and records the grant of Numbers 32:33 to Reuben, Gad and half Manasseh as settled, before a single western king is named.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

Half of the Gilod, the boundry of Sichon. That was the border of Sichon’s domain, as we said above, 1 See Verse. that half of Gilod was his, and this second half was Og’s.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on Joshua 12:5:1, via Sefaria, The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 4 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

16 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וּ֠מֹשֵׁלand [who] ruled

    umoshelH4910

  • בְּהַ֨רover [the] mountain of

    beharH2022546 times

  • חֶרְמ֤וֹןHermon

    chermonH276813 times

  • וּבְסַלְכָה֙and over Salecah

    uvesalkhahH5548

  • וּבְכָל־and over all

    uvekhol-H36055413 times

  • הַבָּשָׁ֔ן<the> Bashan

    habashanH131660 times

  • עַד־to

    ʾad-H57041261 times

  • גְּב֥וּל[the] border of

    gevulH1366240 times

  • הַגְּשׁוּרִ֖יthe Geshurite[s]

    hageshuriH16516 times

  • וְהַמַּעֲכָתִ֑יand the Maacathite[s]

    vehamaakhatiH46028 times

  • וַחֲצִי֙and [the] half of

    vachatziH2677125 times

  • הַגִּלְעָ֔ד<the> Gilead

    hagiladH1568134 times

  • גְּב֖וּל[the] border of

    gevulH1366240 times

  • סִיח֥וֹןSihon

    sichonH551137 times

  • מֶֽלֶךְ־[the] king of

    melekh-H44282525 times

  • חֶשְׁבּֽוֹן׃Heshbon

    cheshbonH280938 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    2 Samuel 13:37

    Now Absalom fled and went to Talmai son of Ammihud, the king of Geshur. But David mourned for his son every day.

    it leads to

    • 2 Samuel 3:3

      his second was Chileab, by Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel; his third was Absalom, the son of Maacah daughter of King Talmai of Geshur;

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 2 Samuel 14:23

      So Joab got up, went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.

  • Through

    1 Samuel 27:8

    Now David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites. (From ancient times these people had inhabited the land extending to Shur and Egypt.)

    it leads to

    • Joshua 13:13

      but the Israelites did not drive out the Geshurites or the Maacathites. So Geshur and Maacath dwell among the Israelites to this day.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Joshua 13:2

      This is the land that remains:

    • 1 Samuel 15:7–8

      Then Saul struck down the Amalekites all the way from Havilah to Shur, which is east of Egypt.

  • Through

    Deuteronomy 3:14

    Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, took the whole region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites. He renamed Bashan after himself, Havvoth-jair, by which it is called to this…

    it leads to

    • Numbers 32:41

      Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, went and captured their villages and called them Havvoth-jair.

    • 2 Samuel 13:37

      Now Absalom fled and went to Talmai son of Ammihud, the king of Geshur. But David mourned for his son every day.

    • 2 Samuel 10:6

      When the Ammonites realized that they had become a stench to David, they hired twenty thousand Aramean foot soldiers from Beth-rehob and Zoba, as well as a thousand men from the king of Maacah…

About Joshua

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament.