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1 And these [are] the kings of the land, whom the children of Israel killed, and inherited their land beyond the Jordan from the east, from the valley of Arnon, to Mount Hermon, and all the land of the Arabah on the east.
2 Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, ruling from Arnon, which is in the valley, on the side of the valley, and half of Gilead as far as Jabbok, the borders of the children of Ammon.
3 And the Arabah as far as the Sea of Chinneroth eastward, and as far as the Sea of the Arabah; the Salt Sea eastward [by] the way to Beth Jeshimoth, from Taman below the slopes of Pisgah.
4 And Og king of Bashan, who dwelt in Ashtaroth and in Edrei, was left of the giants
5 ruling from Mount Hermon and from Salcah, and [over] all the land of Bashan to the borders of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and the half of Gilead of the borders of Sihon king of Heshbon.
6 Moses the servant of the Lord and the children of Israel struck them; and Moses gave them by way of inheritance to Reuben and Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh.
7 And these [are] the kings of the Amorites, whom Joshua and the children of Israel killed beyond the Jordan by the sea of Balagad in the plain of Lebanon, and as far as the mountain of Halak, as men go up to Seir. And Joshua gave it to the tribes of Israel to inherit according to their portion.
8 In the mountain, and in the plain, and in the Arabah, and in Ashedoth, and in the wilderness, and the Negev- the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:
9 the king of Jericho, one; and the king of Ai, which is near 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 Elath, one;
17 the king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one;
18 the king of Aphek; the king of Lasharon;
19 the king of Madon, one;
20 the king of Shimron Meron, one; the king of Achshaph, one;
21 the king of Kadesh, one; the king of Taanach, one;
22 the king of Maredoth, one; the king of Jokneam of Carmel, one;
23 the king of Adullam [of] Dor, one; the king of Gilgal of Galilee, one;
24 the king of Tirzah, one- all these [were] twenty-nine kings.
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