11 It also included Gilead,(A) the territory of the people of Geshur and Maakah, all of Mount Hermon and all Bashan as far as Salekah(B)

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23 (But Geshur and Aram captured Havvoth Jair,[a](A) as well as Kenath(B) with its surrounding settlements—sixty towns.) All these were descendants of Makir the father of Gilead.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 2:23 Or captured the settlements of Jair

Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon.(A)

He ruled from Aroer(B) on the rim of the Arnon Gorge—from the middle of the gorge—to the Jabbok River,(C) which is the border of the Ammonites.(D) This included half of Gilead.(E) He also ruled over the eastern Arabah from the Sea of Galilee[a](F) to the Sea of the Arabah (that is, the Dead Sea(G)), to Beth Jeshimoth,(H) and then southward below the slopes of Pisgah.(I)

And the territory of Og king of Bashan,(J) one of the last of the Rephaites,(K) who reigned in Ashtaroth(L) and Edrei.

He ruled over Mount Hermon, Salekah,(M) all of Bashan(N) to the border of the people of Geshur(O) and Maakah,(P) and half of Gilead(Q) to the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 12:3 Hebrew Kinnereth

47 They took possession of his land and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two Amorite kings east of the Jordan. 48 This land extended from Aroer(A) on the rim of the Arnon Gorge to Mount Sirion[a](B) (that is, Hermon(C)),

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 4:48 Syriac (see also 3:9); Hebrew Siyon

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