20athat mighty kings have ruled over Jerusalem, governing all the provincesbbeyond the River, and that ctribute, custom and toll were paid to them.
b
Genesis 15:18, Joshua 1:4
Genesis 15
18
On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, "aTo your descendants I have given this land, From bthe river of Egypt as far as the great river, the river Euphrates:
Joshua 1
4
"aFrom the wilderness and this Lebanon, even as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and as far as the Great Sea toward the setting of the sun will be your territory.