Joshua 13:26
New International Version
and from Heshbon to Ramath Mizpah and Betonim, and from Mahanaim to the territory of Debir;

New Living Translation
It extended from Heshbon to Ramath-mizpeh and Betonim, and from Mahanaim to the territory of Lo-debar.

English Standard Version
and from Heshbon to Ramath-mizpeh and Betonim, and from Mahanaim to the territory of Debir,

Berean Standard Bible
the territory from Heshbon to Ramath-mizpeh and Betonim, and from Mahanaim to the border of Debir;

King James Bible
And from Heshbon unto Ramathmizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim unto the border of Debir;

New King James Version
and from Heshbon to Ramath Mizpah and Betonim, and from Mahanaim to the border of Debir,

New American Standard Bible
and from Heshbon as far as Ramath-mizpeh and Betonim, and from Mahanaim as far as the border of Debir;

NASB 1995
and from Heshbon as far as Ramath-mizpeh and Betonim, and from Mahanaim as far as the border of Debir;

NASB 1977
and from Heshbon as far as Ramath-mizpeh and Betonim, and from Mahanaim as far as the border of Debir;

Legacy Standard Bible
and from Heshbon as far as Ramath-mizpeh and Betonim, and from Mahanaim as far as the border of Debir;

Amplified Bible
and from Heshbon as far as Ramath-mizpeh and Betonim, and from Mahanaim as far as the border of Debir;

Christian Standard Bible
from Heshbon to Ramath-mizpeh and Betonim, and from Mahanaim to the border of Debir;

Holman Christian Standard Bible
from Heshbon to Ramath-mizpeh and Betonim, and from Mahanaim to the border of Debir;

American Standard Version
and from Heshbon unto Ramath-mizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim unto the border of Debir;

Contemporary English Version
The land given to Gad stretched from Heshbon in the south to Ramath-Mizpeh and Betonim in the north, and even further north to Mahanaim and Lidebor.

English Revised Version
and from Heshbon unto Ramath-mizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim unto the border of Debir;

GOD'S WORD® Translation
It extended from Heshbon to Ramath Mizpeh and Betonim, and from Mahanaim as far as the border of Lidbir.

Good News Translation
their land extended from Heshbon to Ramath Mizpeh and Betonim, from Mahanaim to the border of Lodebar.

International Standard Version
from Heshbon as far as Ramath-mizpeh and Betonim, from Mahanaim as far as the border of Debir,

Majority Standard Bible
the territory from Heshbon to Ramath-mizpeh and Betonim, and from Mahanaim to the border of Debir;

NET Bible
Their territory ran from Heshbon to Ramath Mizpah and Betonim, and from Mahanaim to the territory of Debir.

New Heart English Bible
and from Heshbon to Ramath Mizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim to the border of Debir;

Webster's Bible Translation
And from Heshbon to Ramath-mizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim to the border of Debir;

World English Bible
and from Heshbon to Ramath Mizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim to the border of Debir;
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
and from Heshbon to Ramath-Mispeh, and Betonim, and from Mahanaim to the border of Debir,

Young's Literal Translation
and from Heshbon unto Ramath-Mispeh, and Betonim, and from Mahanaim unto the border of Debir,

Smith's Literal Translation
And from Heshbon even to Ramath-Mizpeh, and Betonim; and from the two camps even to the bound to Debir;
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And from Hesebon unto Ramoth, Masphe and Betonim: and from Manaim unto the borders of Dabir.

Catholic Public Domain Version
and from Heshbon as far as Ramath, Mizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim as far as the borders of Debir;

New American Bible
(that is, from Heshbon to Ramath-mizpeh and Betonim, and from Mahanaim to the boundary of Lo-debar);

New Revised Standard Version
and from Heshbon to Ramath-mizpeh and Betonim, and from Mahanaim to the territory of Debir,
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
And from Heshbon to Ramath-mizpah, and Betonin; and from Mahanaim to the border of Debir;

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And from Kheshbon and unto RamathMatspia and Batnin, and from Makhanim and unto the border of Dabir
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
and from Heshbon unto Ramath-mizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim unto the border of Lidbir;

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And from Esebon to Araboth by Massepha, and Botanim, and Maan to the borders of Daebon,

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Gad's Inheritance
25The territory of Jazer, all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the Ammonites as far as Aroer, near Rabbah; 26the territory from Heshbon to Ramath-mizpeh and Betonim, and from Mahanaim to the border of Debir; 27and 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).…

Cross References
Numbers 32:39-42
The descendants of Machir son of Manasseh went to Gilead, captured it, and drove out the Amorites who were there. / So Moses gave Gilead to the clan of Machir son of Manasseh, and they settled there. / Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, went and captured their villages and called them Havvoth-jair. ...

Deuteronomy 3:12-17
So at that time we took possession of this land. To the Reubenites and Gadites I gave the land beyond Aroer along the Arnon Valley, and half the hill country of Gilead, along with its cities. / To the half-tribe of Manasseh I gave the rest of Gilead and all of Bashan, the kingdom of Og. (The entire region of Argob, the whole territory of Bashan, used to be called the land of the Rephaim.) / Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, took the whole region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites. He renamed Bashan after himself, Havvoth-jair, by which it is called to this day. ...

Judges 11:12-28
Then Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites, saying, “What do you have against me that you have come to fight against my land?” / The king of the Ammonites answered Jephthah’s messengers, “When Israel came up out of Egypt, they seized my land, from the Arnon to the Jabbok and all the way to the Jordan. Now, therefore, restore it peaceably.” / Jephthah again sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites ...

1 Kings 4:19
Geber son of Uri in the land of Gilead, including the territories of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan. There was also one governor in the land of Judah.

1 Chronicles 5:11-17
The descendants of Gad lived next to the Reubenites in the land of Bashan, as far as Salecah: / Joel was the chief, Shapham the second, then Jaanai and Shaphat, who lived in Bashan. / Their kinsmen by families were Michael, Meshullam, Sheba, Jorai, Jacan, Zia, and Eber—seven in all. ...

Ezekiel 48:1-7
“Now these are the names of the tribes: At the northern frontier, Dan will have one portion bordering the road of Hethlon to Lebo-hamath and running on to Hazar-enan on the border of Damascus with Hamath to the north, and extending from the east side to the west side. / Asher will have one portion bordering the territory of Dan from east to west. / Naphtali will have one portion bordering the territory of Asher from east to west. ...

Genesis 31:49
It was also called Mizpah, because Laban said, “May the LORD keep watch between you and me when we are absent from each other.

Numbers 21:24-26
And Israel put him to the sword and took possession of his land, from the Arnon to the Jabbok—but only up to the border of the Ammonites, because it was fortified. / Israel captured all the cities of the Amorites and occupied them, including Heshbon and all its villages. / Heshbon was the city of Sihon king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab and taken all his land as far as the Arnon.

Deuteronomy 2:36-37
From Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the valley, even as far as Gilead, not one city had walls too high for us. The LORD our God gave us all of them. / But you did not go near the land of the Ammonites, or the land along the banks of the Jabbok River, or the cities of the hill country, or any place that the LORD our God had forbidden.

2 Samuel 10:6-8
When the Ammonites realized that they had become a stench to David, they hired twenty thousand Aramean foot soldiers from Beth-rehob and Zoba, as well as a thousand men from the king of Maacah and twelve thousand men from Tob. / On hearing this, David sent Joab and the entire army of mighty men. / The Ammonites marched out and arrayed themselves for battle at the entrance of the city gate, while the Arameans of Zobah and Rehob and the men of Tob and Maacah were by themselves in the open country.

2 Kings 10:32-33
In those days the LORD began to reduce the size of Israel. Hazael defeated the Israelites throughout their territory / from the Jordan eastward through all the land of Gilead (the region of Gad, Reuben, and Manasseh), and from Aroer by the Arnon Valley through Gilead to Bashan.

Isaiah 15:1-9
This is the burden against Moab: Ar in Moab is ruined, destroyed in a night! Kir in Moab is devastated, destroyed in a night! / Dibon goes up to its temple to weep at its high places. Moab wails over Nebo, as well as over Medeba. Every head is shaved, every beard is cut off. / In its streets they wear sackcloth; on the rooftops and in the public squares they all wail, falling down weeping. ...

Jeremiah 48:1-47
Concerning Moab, this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Woe to Nebo, for it will be devastated. Kiriathaim will be captured and disgraced; the fortress will be shattered and dismantled. / There is no longer praise for Moab; in Heshbon they devise evil against her: ‘Come, let us cut her off from nationhood.’ You too, O people of Madmen, will be silenced; the sword will pursue you. / A voice cries out from Horonaim: ‘Devastation and great destruction!’ ...

Amos 1:13-15
This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of the Ammonites, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead in order to enlarge their territory. / So I will kindle a fire in the walls of Rabbah to consume its citadels amid war cries on the day of battle and a violent wind on the day of tempest. / Their king will go into exile—he and his princes together,” says the LORD.

Zephaniah 2:8-11
“I have heard the reproach of Moab and the insults of the Ammonites, who have taunted My people and threatened their borders. / Therefore, as surely as I live,” declares the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, “surely Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah—a place of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual wasteland. The remnant of My people will plunder them; the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.” / This they shall have in return for their pride, for taunting and mocking the people of the LORD of Hosts. ...


Treasury of Scripture

And from Heshbon to Ramathmizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim to the border of Debir;

Ramath-mizpeh

Joshua 20:8
And on the other side Jordan by Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness upon the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.

Genesis 31:49
And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.

Judges 10:17
Then the children of Ammon were gathered together, and encamped in Gilead. And the children of Israel assembled themselves together, and encamped in Mizpeh.

Mahanaim

Joshua 21:38
And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Mahanaim with her suburbs,

Genesis 32:1,2
And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him…

2 Samuel 2:8
But Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's host, took Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim;

Debir

2 Samuel 9:5
Then king David sent, and fetched him out of the house of Machir, the son of Ammiel, from Lodebar.

2 Samuel 17:27
And it came to pass, when David was come to Mahanaim, that Shobi the son of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and Machir the son of Ammiel of Lodebar, and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim,

Lodebar

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Joshua 13
1. The bounds of the land not yet conquered
8. The inheritance of the two tribes and a half
14. The Lord and his sacrifices are the inheritance of Levi
15. The bounds of the inheritance of Reuben
22. Balaam slain
24. The bounds of the inheritance of God
29. and of the half tribe of Manasseh














the territory from Heshbon to Ramath-mizpeh and Betonim
Heshbon was a significant city in the ancient Near East, originally a Moabite city before being conquered by the Amorite King Sihon. It later became part of the territory allotted to the tribe of Reuben. The mention of Heshbon here underscores its importance as a landmark in defining territorial boundaries. Ramath-mizpeh, meaning "height of the watchtower," suggests a strategic location, likely used for military or communication purposes. Betonim is less well-known, but its inclusion indicates it was a recognized landmark at the time. This phrase highlights the detailed nature of territorial boundaries in ancient Israel, reflecting the importance of land inheritance and tribal identity.

and from Mahanaim to the border of Debir
Mahanaim, meaning "two camps," is historically significant as a place where Jacob encountered angels (Genesis 32:1-2) and later served as a refuge for David during Absalom's rebellion (2 Samuel 17:24). Its mention here indicates its continued importance in the region. The border of Debir, not to be confused with the city of Debir in Judah, marks the extent of the territory. This phrase emphasizes the careful delineation of land, which was crucial for maintaining peace and order among the tribes. The reference to Mahanaim also connects to themes of divine encounter and protection, as seen in Jacob's story.

Persons / Places / Events
1. Heshbon
A significant city in the territory of the Amorites, later given to the tribe of Reuben. It was a central location in the conquest accounts and a symbol of God's deliverance and provision for Israel.

2. Ramath-mizpeh
A location whose exact historical and geographical details are less clear, but it is mentioned as a boundary marker in the division of the land.

3. Betonim
Another boundary location, its specific historical significance is not detailed in the Bible, but it serves as a geographical marker in the land allotment.

4. Mahanaim
A city of refuge and a Levitical city, known for its role in the accounts of Jacob and later King David. It symbolizes God's protection and provision.

5. Debir
A city that was conquered by Joshua and given to the tribe of Judah. It represents the fulfillment of God's promises to Israel regarding the land.
Teaching Points
God's Faithfulness in Fulfillment
The detailed boundaries and cities listed in Joshua 13:26 remind us of God's faithfulness in fulfilling His promises to Israel. Each location signifies a step in the realization of the covenant promises.

The Importance of Obedience
The allocation of land required Israel's obedience to God's commands. Similarly, our spiritual inheritance requires us to walk in obedience to God's Word.

Divine Protection and Provision
Places like Mahanaim highlight God's ongoing protection and provision for His people. We can trust God to be our refuge and strength in times of need.

Historical and Spiritual Significance
Understanding the historical context of these locations enriches our appreciation of the spiritual lessons they convey. They serve as reminders of God's past actions and His ongoing work in our lives.Verse 26. - Ramath-Mizpeh. This is idenitified with Ramoth-Gilead by Vandevelde, and must have been the Mizpeh of Gilead mentioned in Judges 11:29. It is supposed to be identical with the place called Mizpah, Galeed, and Jegar-sahadutha by Jacob and Laban respectively (Genesis 31:47-49). If it be the same as Ramoth-Gilead, it is the scene of the celebrated battle against the Syrians, in which Ahab lost his life (1 Kings 22.), and where the fall of the dynasty of Omri was brought about by the revolt of Jehu (2 Kings 9.). Conder, however, thinks the two are distinct places, and fixes Ramoth-Mizpeh on the north border of Gad, about 25 reties west of Bozrah. Verse 26. - Mahanaim The dual of מַהֲנהֶ two hosts or camps. It received its name from Jacob, who with his own company met the angels of God, and who commemorated the meeting by this name (see Genesis 32:2). Here Ishbesheth was crowned (2 Samuel 2:8). Here David took refuge when he crossed the Jordan, to avoid falling into the hands of Absalom (2 Samuel 17:24). Debir. Not the Debir mentioned in ch. 10, but another Debir in the land of Gilead, whose site is unknown.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
from Heshbon
וּמֵחֶשְׁבּ֛וֹן (ū·mê·ḥeš·bō·wn)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-m | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 2809: Heshbon -- a place East of the Jordan

to
עַד־ (‘aḏ-)
Preposition
Strong's 5704: As far as, even to, up to, until, while

Ramath-mizpeh
רָמַ֥ת (rā·maṯ)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew

and Betonim,
וּבְטֹנִ֑ים (ū·ḇə·ṭō·nîm)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 993: Betonim -- a city of Gad

and from Mahanaim
וּמִֽמַּחֲנַ֖יִם (ū·mim·ma·ḥă·na·yim)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-m | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 4266: Mahanaim -- 'two camps', a place East of the Jordan

to
עַד־ (‘aḏ-)
Preposition
Strong's 5704: As far as, even to, up to, until, while

the border
גְּב֥וּל (gə·ḇūl)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1366: A cord, a boundary, the territory inclosed

of Debir;
לִדְבִֽר׃ (liḏ·ḇir)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 1688: Debir -- an Amorite king, also the name of several places in Palestine


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