“Now these are the kings of the land, which the children of Israel smote, and possessed their land on the other side Jordan toward the rising of the sun, from the river Arnon unto mount Hermon, and all the plain on the east:”
Sihon and Og's kingdoms summarized — Now these are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the children of Israel struck down on this side of the Jordan on the west (בְעֵבֶר־הַיַּרְדֵּן), from Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir. Joshua's conquest of the Transjordan region (east of Jordan) under Moses' leadership is summarized. Sihon, king of the Amorites, and Og, king of Bashan, are the two eastern kings whose defeat prefigured the conquest west of Jordan (cf. Numbers 21; Deuteronomy 2-3). The geographic boundaries—Baal-gad to Mount Halak—bracket the conquered territory.
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