And Israel took all these cities,.... Which lay between the rivers Arnon and Jabbok; their particular names may be seen in
and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites; being given to the Reubenites and Gadites, who inhabited them, as their possession and inheritance, Numbers 32:2:
in Heshbon, and in all the villages thereof; or "daughters thereof" q. Heshbon was the metropolis or mother city, and all the towns and villages adjacent were as daughters to it; of which city more is said in the following verses, Isaiah 15:4.
q בנתיה "filiabus ejus", Montanus, Munster, Fagius, Grotius.