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Psalms 135:11
Sihon king of the Amorites, Og king of Bashan, and all the kings of Canaan.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The psalmist addresses the assembly, listing specific defeated rulers immediately after describing God’s slaughter of mighty kings and before noting the transfer of their territory to Israel.
The words — מֶלֶךְ (Me.lekh) means king, and מַמְלְכ֥וֹת (mam.le.Khot) means kingdoms, highlighting the political entities that were overthrown.
The thread — These names and titles appear in Joshua 12:7, Deuteronomy 29:7, and Nehemiah 9:22, which document the same military campaigns and land allocation.
Why it lands — The text requires the reader to recall God’s precise historical judgments against named rulers and His reliable fulfillment of the inheritance promise to Israel.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Sihon king of the Amorites, and Og king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan:
Cross-references
- Joshua 12:7 And these are the kings of the land that Joshua and the Israelites conquered beyond the Jordan to the west, from Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir (according to the allotments to the tribes of Israel, Joshua gave them as an inheritance
- Deuteronomy 29:7 When you reached this place, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out against us in battle, but we defeated them.
- Nehemiah 9:22 You gave them kingdoms and peoples and allotted to them every corner of the land. So they took the land of Sihon king of Heshbon and of Og king of Bashan.
- Numbers 21:21 Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,
- Deuteronomy 2:30 But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass through, for the LORD your God had made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate, that He might deliver him into your hand, as is the case this day.
- Joshua 10:1 Now Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had captured Ai and devoted it to destruction—doing to Ai and its king as he had done to Jericho and its king—and that the people of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were living near them.