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are the kings of the land whom the Israelites defeated, and took possession of their land across the Jordan toward the rising of the sun, from the Arnon Valley to Mount Hermon, including all the Arabah eastward:
2 Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon. He ruled over the territory from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, and from along the middle of the valley as far as the Jabbok River, which is on the border of the Ammonites. This territory also included half of Gilead. 3 He also ruled over the Arabah east of the Sea of Chinneroth, as far as the sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea), eastward toward Beth-jeshimoth, and southward below the slopes of Pisgah.
4 And the territory of Og king of Bashan, one of the remnant of the Rephaim, who lived at Ashtaroth and at Edrei. 5 He ruled over Mount Hermon, Salecah, and all Bashan, as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and half of Gilead to the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.
6 Moses, the servant of the Lord, and the Israelites conquered them. And Moses, the servant of the Lord, gave it for an possession to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.
7 These are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the Israelites conquered on the west side of the Jordan, from Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, which ascends towards Seir (Joshua gave their lands as a possession to the tribes of Israel according to their tribal divisions— 8 the hill country, the Judean foothills, the Arabah, the mountain slopes, the wilderness, and the Negev—the territory of the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, and Jebusites):
9 The king of Jericho: one
the king of Ai, which is next to Bethel: one
10 the king of Jerusalem: one
the king of Hebron: one
11 the king of Jarmuth: one
the king of Lachish: one
12 the king of Eglon: one
the king of Gezer: one
13 the king of Debir: one
the king of Geder: one
14 the king of Hormah: one
the king of Arad: one
15 the king of Libnah: one
the king of Adullam: one
16 the king of Makkedah: one
the king of Bethel: one
17 the king of Tappuah: one
the king of Hepher: one
18 the king of Aphek: one
the king of Lasharon: one
19 the king of Madon: one
the king of Hazor: one
20 the king of Shimron-meron: one
the king of Achshaph: one
21 the king of Taanach: one
the king of Megiddo: one
22 the king of Kedesh: one
the king of Jokneam in Carmel: one
23 the king of Dor in Naphath-dor: one
the king of Goiim in Gilgal: one
24 the king of Tirzah: one
in all, thirty-one kings.