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Joshua 13:20

in Joshua 13

Beth-peor, the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth-jeshimoth—

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

and Beth-peor, and the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth-jeshimoth,

KJV

And Beth–peor, and Ashdoth–pisgah, and Beth–jeshimoth,

This verse in Joshua 13

Commentary

2 notes on this verse
And Bethpeor,.... So called from Peor, the idol of the Moabites, and where very likely there had been a temple built to the honour of it; over against this place was a valley, where Israel abode some time, Deu 3:29, and Ashdodpisgah; of which see Deu 3:17, and Bethjeshimoth; of which see Num 33:49.

This site's exposition

unto the tribe of the children

on Joshua 13:15-23

Reuben's towns carry the names of the gods Israel had fallen to a generation before. Bamoth-baal and Beth-baal-meon at verse 17 and Beth-peor at verse 20 are Baal's high places, Numbers 25:1-3 records what Israel did at Baal-peor, and Deuteronomy 34:6 buries Moses in a valley over against Beth-peor. Verse 22 is the only place in Scripture that calls Balaam a soothsayer, and it sets his death among the slain of Midian, which closes Numbers 31:8. Heshbon at the head of the list had been Moab's before Sihon took it at Numbers 21:26, and Isaiah 16:8 and Jeremiah 48 find Moab holding these same towns again long after Reuben is gone.

The words behind it

6 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.

  • וּבֵ֥יתand Beth

    uveitH1047

  • פְּע֛וֹרPeor

    peorH1047

  • וְאַשְׁדּ֥וֹתand [the] slopes of

    veashdotH798

  • הַפִּסְגָּ֖ה<the> Pisgah

    hapisgahH6449

  • וּבֵ֥יתand Beth

    uveitH10208 times

  • הַיְשִׁמֽוֹת׃<the> Jeshimoth

    hayshimotH10208 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

    Deuteronomy 3:17

    The Jordan River in the Arabah bordered it from Chinnereth to the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) with the slopes of Pisgah to the east.

    it leads to

    • Joshua 3:16

      the flowing water stood still. It backed up as far upstream as Adam, a city in the area of Zarethan, while the water flowing toward the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) was…

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Joshua 12:3

      as well as the Arabah east of the Sea of Chinnereth to the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea), eastward through Beth-jeshimoth, and southward below the slopes of Pisgah.

    • Deuteronomy 4:49

      including all the Arabah on the east side of the Jordan and as far as the Sea of the Arabah, below the slopes of Pisgah.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Genesis 14:3

      The latter five came as allies to the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea).

  • Through

    Joshua 12:3

    as well as the Arabah east of the Sea of Chinnereth to the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea), eastward through Beth-jeshimoth, and southward below the slopes of Pisgah.

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 3:17

      The Jordan River in the Arabah bordered it from Chinnereth to the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) with the slopes of Pisgah to the east.

    • Joshua 11:2

      to the kings of the north in the mountains, in the Arabah south of Chinnereth, in the foothills, and in Naphoth-dor to the west;

  • Through

    Deuteronomy 4:46

    while they were in the valley across the Jordan facing Beth-peor in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon and was defeated by Moses and the Israelites after they…

    it leads to

  • Through

    Numbers 25:3

    So Israel joined in worshiping Baal of Peor, and the anger of the LORD burned against them.

    it leads to

    • Hosea 9:10

      I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the firstfruits of the fig tree in its first season. But they went to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves to Shame; so…

About Joshua

The Walls of Jericho Fall Down, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Walls of Jericho Fall Down, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Joshua, Judges, Ruth.