Joshua 12:2Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Sehon king of the Amorrhites, who dwelt in Hesebon, and had dominion from Aroer, which is seated upon the bank of the torrent Arnon, and of the middle part in the valley, and of half Galaad, as far as the torrent Jaboc, which is the border of the children of Ammon.
סִיחוֹן֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ הָאֱמֹרִ֔י הַיּוֹשֵׁ֖ב בְּחֶשְׁבּ֑וֹן מֹשֵׁ֡ל מֵעֲרוֹעֵ֡ר אֲשֶׁר֩ עַל־שְׂפַת־נַ֨חַל אַרְנ֜וֹן וְת֤וֹךְ הַנַּ֙חַל֙ וַחֲצִ֣י הַגִּלְעָ֔ד וְעַד֙ יַבֹּ֣ק הַנַּ֔חַל גְּב֖וּל בְּנֵ֥י עַמּֽוֹן׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Gen 32:22And rising early, he took his two wives and his two handmaids, with his eleven sons, and passed over the ford of Jaboc.
- Judg 11:13And he answered them: Because Israel took away my land, when he came up out of Egypt, from the confines of the Arnon unto the Jaboc and the Jordan: now, therefore, restore the same peaceably to me.
- Deut 3:6And we utterly destroyed them, as we had done to Sehon the king of Hesebon, destroying every city, men and women and children:
- Deut 3:17And the plain of the wilderness, and the Jordan, and the borders of Cenereth unto the sea of the desert, which is the most salt sea, to the foot of mount Phasga eastward.
- Judg 11:22And all the coasts thereof from the Arnon to the Jaboc, and from the wilderness to the Jordan.
- Ps 135 (134):11
- Ps 136 (135):19
- Ps 136 (135):20