And from Heshbon unto Ramath-mizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim unto the border of Debir;
From Heshbon unto Ramath-mizpeh - Heshbon (see the note at Joshua 13:17). Porter ('Handbook of Syria and Palestine, p. 310) thinks 'it is highly probable that Jebel Osh'a may be the Ramath-mizpeh (the heights of the watch-tower) referred to in this passage and Judges 11:1-40.'
Betonim - perhaps Batneh, in the vicinity of the former.
And from Mahanaim (the two hosts, Genesis 32:1-32) - a town near the fords north of the Jabbok, on the border of the tribes Gad and Manasseh, and given to the Levites (Joshua 21:38).
Unto the border of Debir, х gªbuwl (H1366) li-Dªbir (H1688)] - the boundary of Gad, at a place which Reland conjectures should be Lodebar. Grove suggests that, from its position in the grazing country on the high downs east of Jordan, the name may be derived from Dabar, the same word which is the root of Midbar the pasture district. [The Septuagint, instead of Debir, has Daiboon.]