Joshua 12:5 BSB — MannaFest

Joshua 12:5

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

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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.

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Commentary

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Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (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.

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Original language & word study

16 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וּ֠מֹשֵׁל	U.mo.shel	and [who] ruled	H4910 →
בְּהַ֨ר	be.Har	over [the] mountain of	H2022 →
חֶרְמ֤וֹן	cher.Mon	Hermon	H2768 →
וּבְסַלְכָה֙	u.ve.sal.Khah	and over Salecah	H5548 →
וּבְכָל־	u.ve.Khol-	and over all	H3605 →
הַבָּשָׁ֔ן	ha.ba.Shan	<the> Bashan	H1316 →
עַד־	'ad-	to	H5704 →
גְּב֥וּל	ge.Vul	[the] border of	H1366 →
הַגְּשׁוּרִ֖י	ha.ge.shu.Ri	the Geshurite[s]	H1651 →
וְהַמַּעֲכָתִ֑י	ve.ha.ma.'a.kha.Ti	and the Maacathite[s]	H4602 →
וַחֲצִי֙	va.cha.Tzi	and [the] half of	H2677 →
הַגִּלְעָ֔ד	ha.gil.'Ad	<the> Gilead	H1568 →
גְּב֖וּל	ge.Vul	[the] border of	H1366 →
סִיח֥וֹן	si.Chon	Sihon	H5511 →
מֶֽלֶךְ־	Me.lekh-	[the] king of	H4428 →
חֶשְׁבּֽוֹן׃	chesh.Bon	Heshbon	H2809 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

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.
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 independent 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.)
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 independent 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…
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…