Joshua 13:27

And in the valley, Betharam ,.... The same with Bethharan; see Gill on Numbers 32:36 ,

and Bethnimrah ; sometimes called Nimrah, Numbers 32:3 ; near to which were some waters, called the waters of Nimrim, Isaiah 15:6 ; It was in Jerom's F16 De loc. Heb. fol. 93. I. time a large village; it seems to have its name from leopards, which perhaps had their haunts hereabout:

and Succoth : the place where Jacob pitched his tent after he had passed over Jabbok; it is called in the Jerusalem Talmud F17 T. Hieros. Sheviith, fol. 38. 4. Thaarabah:

and Zaphon ; which in the same Talmud is Amatho or Amathus, which Jerom says F18 De loc. Heb. fol. 88. E. is a village beyond Jordan, twenty one miles from Pella to the south, though he places it in the tribe of Reuben:

the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon ; which was not given to the tribe of Reuben, Joshua 13:21 ,

Jordan and his border ; that is, the cities which were near it, as Kimchi; or that were upon the bank of it, as Jarchi:

even unto the edge of the sea of Chinnereth ; the same with the lake of Gennesaret, Luke 5:1 ,

on the other side Jordan eastward ; the other from that in which the inheritance of Gad lay, which was beyond Jordan, from the land of Canaan.