When Israel owned the East Bank
Israel on both sides of the Jordan River
When Joshua led the Hebrew ancestors across the Jordan River, into the river valley near the city of Jericho, they already owed the ground behind them. They captured it from nations that attacked them as they traveled. But after almost a millennium, they began to lose it. Syria steals Israel's land.
Three tribes lose their homeland
The LORD began breaking off pieces of Israel and giving them away. Syria’s King Hazael defeated Israel in one location after another. He kept what he won. He won the sprawling territory of Gilead along with the tribal lands of Gad, Reuben, Manasseh, all east of the Jordan River. He took that entire stretch of land, from the town of Aroer by the Arnon river in the south, to the territories of Gilead and Bashan in the north. (2 Kings 10:32-33, Casual English Bible).
This cut Israel in half, not only by splitting the nation down the middle, along the Jordan River, but by taking half the land mass.
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