King James Version · Entering the land
Joshua 12
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Now these are the kings of the land, which the smote, and their land on the other side Jordan toward the rising of the sun, from the river unto , and all the plain on the east: king of the , who dwelt in , and ruled from , which is upon the bank of the river , and from the middle of the river, and from half , even unto the river , which is the border of ; And from the plain to the sea of on the east, and unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea on the east, to ; and from the south, under Ashdoth–pisgah: And the coast of king of , which was of of the giants, that dwelt at and at , And reigned in , and in Salcah, and in all , unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and half , the border of king of . Them did the and the smite: and the gave it for a possession unto the , and the , and the half tribe of . And these are the kings of the country which and the smote on this side Jordan on the west, from –gad in the valley of even unto the mount Halak, that goeth up to ; which gave unto the tribes of Israel for a possession according to their divisions; In the mountains, and in the valleys, and in the plains, and in the springs, and in , and in the south country; the , the , and , the , the , and the : The king of , one; the king of , which is beside Beth–el, one; The king of , one; the king of , one; The king of , one; the king of , one; The king of , one; the king of , one; The king of , one; the king of Geder, one; The king of , one; the king of , one; The king of , one; the king of , one; The king of , one; the king of Beth–el, one; The king of Tappuah, one; the king of , one; The king of , one; the king of Lasharon, one; The king of Madon, one; the king of , one; The king of –meron, one; the king of , one; The king of , one; the king of , one; The king of , one; the king of of , one; The king of in the coast of , one; the king of the nations of , one; The king of , one: all the kings thirty and one.
The 1611 translation, public domain. Its original printing included the Apocrypha, which is why the deuterocanonical books can be read here. Notes and cards are EKLI’s own.
The world at this moment · Entering the land, 1250 BC to 1200 BC ›
Israel crossing into Canaan and contending with fortified city-states, each with its own king, in a land Egypt had recently dominated and was now losing its grip on.
- The collapse
- The whole eastern Mediterranean is coming apart. Within about fifty years the Hittite empire falls, its capital burns, the Mycenaean palaces are destroyed, Ugarit is wiped out mid-correspondence, and Egypt is fighting for its life against seaborne invaders. Nobody fully knows why. Drought, earthquake, migration, and the failure of interlocking trade are all in the explanation.
- Egypt
- Still strong enough to record a victory over a people called Israel on a stone monument around 1207 BC, the earliest mention of the name outside the Bible. But Egyptian control of Canaan is slipping, and within a generation it is gone.
- Canaan
- Not a country but dozens of walled towns, each with its own king, its own god, and its own quarrel with the next valley. This is why the book of Joshua reads as a list of kings rather than a war with a nation.
- Further afield
- Iron is beginning to replace bronze across the region, partly because the tin trade that made bronze possible has broken down. The Olmec are building San Lorenzo. The Zhou are about to overthrow the Shang in China.