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Joshua 13:27
and in the valley, Beth-haram, Beth-nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, with the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon (the territory on the east side of the Jordan up to the edge of the Sea of Chinnereth).
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Joshua records the eastern Transjordanian allotment, listing valley cities that belonged to Sihon’s former kingdom. This inventory occurs during the land distribution narrative just before concluding the inheritance for the Gadite clans.
The words — The text enumerates Beth-haram, Beth-nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, then uses יֶתֶר (Yeter) to mark the "remainder" of Sihon’s domain extending to the Sea of Chinnereth.
The thread — Succoth appears in Genesis 33:17 as a Jacobite encampment site, while Beth-nimrah and Beth-haran are later cited in Numbers 32:36 as Gadite fortifications. The Sea of Chinnereth functions as an eastern boundary marker in Numbers 34:11.
Why it lands — The verse operates as a legal geographic inventory, mapping conquered territory to establish tribal boundaries. It requires the reader to track how former royal domains were partitioned and assigned to specific clans.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And in the valley, Beth–aram, and Beth–nimrah, 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.
Cross-references
- Genesis 33:17 but Jacob went on to Succoth, where he built a house for himself and shelters for his livestock; that is why the place was called Succoth.
- Numbers 32:36 Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran as fortified cities, and they built folds for their flocks.
- Numbers 34:11 then go down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain and continue along the slopes east of the Sea of Chinnereth.
- Deuteronomy 3:17 The Jordan River in the Arabah bordered it from Chinnereth to the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) with the slopes of Pisgah to the east.
- Joshua 11:2 to the kings of the north in the mountains, in the Arabah south of Chinnereth, in the foothills, and in Naphoth-dor to the west;
- Numbers 32:3 “Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,
- Joshua 12:3 as well as the Arabah east of the Sea of Chinnereth to the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea), eastward through Beth-jeshimoth, and southward below the slopes of Pisgah.
- Judges 8:5 So Gideon said to the men of Succoth, “Please give my troops some bread, for they are exhausted, and I am still pursuing Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.”
- Judges 8:14 There he captured a young man of Succoth and interrogated him. The young man wrote down for him the names of the seventy-seven leaders and elders of Succoth.
- 1 Kings 7:46 The king had them cast in clay molds in the plain of the Jordan between Succoth and Zarethan.