KJV King James Version
And their coast was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, unto Aroer that [is] before Rabbah;
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Joshua 13:25
And their coast was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, unto Aroer that [is] before Rabbah;
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
The territory of Jazer, all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the Ammonites as far as Aroer, near Rabbah;
WEB World English Bible
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;
ASV American Standard Version
And their border was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, unto Aroer that is before Rabbah;
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and the border is to them Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and the half of the land of the Bene-Ammon, unto Aroer which is on the front of Rabbah,
Surrounding context — Joshua 13
22 Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the children of Israel slay with the sword among them that were slain by them.
23 And the border of the children of Reuben was Jordan, and the border [thereof]. This [was] the inheritance of the children of Reuben after their families, the cities and the villages thereof.
24 And Moses gave [inheritance] unto the tribe of Gad, [even] unto the children of Gad according to their families.
25 And their coast was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, unto Aroer that [is] before Rabbah;
26 And from Heshbon unto Ramathmizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim unto the border of Debir;
27 And in the valley, Betharam, and Bethnimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, Jordan and [his] border, [even] unto the edge of the sea of Chinnereth on the other side Jordan eastward.
28 This [is] the inheritance of the children of Gad after their families, the cities, and their villages.
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וַיְהִ֤יH1961 · ha.yahto beלָהֶם֙H9038 · hemthemהַגְּב֔וּלH1366 · ge.vulborder: boundaryיַעְזֵר֙H3270 · ya.a.zerJazerוְכָל־H3605 · kolallעָרֵ֣יH5892 · irexcitementהַגִּלְעָ֔דH1568 · gil.adGileadוַחֲצִ֕יH2677 · che.tsihalfאֶ֖רֶץH776 · e.retsland: country/planetבְּנֵ֣יH1121 · benson: childעַמּ֑וֹןH5983 · am.monAmmonעַד־H5704 · adtillעֲרוֹעֵ֕רH6177 · a.ro.erAroerאֲשֶׁ֖רH834 · a.sherwhichעַל־H5921 · aluponפְּנֵ֥יH6440 · pa.nehface: beforeרַבָּֽה׃H7237 · rab.bahRabbah
Cross-references
2 Samuel 11:1And it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time when kings go forth [to battle], that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried still at Jerusalem.Deuteronomy 3:11For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead [was] a bedstead of iron; [is] it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits [was] the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.2 Samuel 12:26And Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city.Numbers 32:35And Atroth, Shophan, and Jaazer, and Jogbehah,Deuteronomy 2:19And [when] thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon, distress them not, nor meddle with them: for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon [any] possession; because I have given it unto the children of Lot [for] a possession.Numbers 21:26-30For Heshbon [was] the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even unto Arnon.Amos 1:14But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind:Joshua 21:39Heshbon with her suburbs, Jazer with her suburbs; four cities in all.Numbers 21:32And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took the villages thereof, and drove out the Amorites that [were] there.Ezekiel 21:20Appoint a way, that the sword may come to Rabbath of the Ammonites, and to Judah in Jerusalem the defenced.Judges 11:13-27And the king of the children of Ammon answered unto the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land, when they came up out of Egypt, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and unto Jordan: now therefore restore those [lands] again peaceably.
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