The Borders of the 2-1/2
Tribes
East of The Jordan River
Jsh 13:8-13,15-32
8 With him the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, which
Moses gave them, beyond the Jordan eastward, even as Moses the servant of Yahweh
gave them:
9 from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that
is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain of Medeba to Dibon;
10 and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, to
the border of the children of Ammon;
11 and Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all Mount
Hermon, and all Bashan to Salecah;
12 all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (the
same was left of the remnant of the Rephaim); for Moses attacked these, and
drove them out.
13 Nevertheless the children of Israel didn’t drive out the Geshurites, nor
the Maacathites: but Geshur and Maacath dwell in the midst of Israel to this
day.
15 Moses gave to the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their
families.
16 Their border was from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon,
and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain by Medeba;
17 Heshbon, and all its cities that are in the plain; Dibon, Bamoth Baal, Beth
Baal Meon,
18 Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath,
19 Kiriathaim, Sibmah, Zereth Shahar in the mount of the valley,
20 Beth Peor, the slopes of Pisgah, Beth Jeshimoth,
21 all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the
Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses struck with the chiefs of Midian,
Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the princes of Sihon, who lived in the land.
22 The children of Israel alse killed Balaam also the son of Beor, the
soothsayer, with the sword, among the rest of their slain.
23 The border of the children of Reuben was the bank of the Jordan. This was
the inheritance of the children of Reuben according to their families, the
cities and its villages.
24 Moses gave to the tribe of Gad, to the children of Gad, according to
their families.
25 Their border was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of
the children of Ammon, to Aroer that is before Rabbah;
26 and from Heshbon to Ramath Mizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim to the
border of Debir;
27 and in the valley, Beth Haram, Beth Nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of
the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, the Jordan’s bank, to the uttermost part
of the sea of Chinnereth beyond the Jordan eastward.
28 This is the inheritance of the children of Gad according to their
families, the cities and its villages.
29 Moses gave an inheritance to the half-tribe of Manasseh. It was for
the half-tribe of the children of Manasseh according to their families.
30 Their border was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of
Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities.
31 Half Gilead, Ashtaroth, and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan,
were for the children of Machir the son of Manasseh, even for the half of the
children of Machir according to their families.
32 These are the inheritances which Moses distributed in the plains of Moab,
beyond the Jordan at Jericho, eastward.