‏ Numbers 21:21-35

Two Victories

21 aThen Israel sent messengers to Sihon, king of the Amorites, saying, 22bLet me pass through your land. We will not turn off into field or vineyard; we will not drink water from wells. We will go by the king’s road until we have passed through your border.” 23 cBut Sihon would not permit Israel to pass through his border. Instead, Sihon gathered all his people and went out against Israel in the wilderness, and came to dJahaz and fought against Israel. 24Then eIsrael struck him with the edge of the sword, and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as the sons of Ammon; for the fborder of the sons of Ammon was
So LXX; MT strong
Jazer.
25Israel took all these cities, and hIsrael lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon and in all her
Lit daughters
villages.
26For Heshbon was the city of Sihon, king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab and had taken all his land out of his hand, as far as the Arnon. 27For that reason those who use proverbs say,
Come to Heshbon! Let it be built!
So let the city of Sihon be established.

28jFor a fire spread from Heshbon,
A flame from the town of Sihon;
It devoured kAr of Moab,
The
Lit lords of the
mdominant
Or Bamoth
heights of the Arnon.

29oWoe to you, Moab!
You are destroyed, people of pChemosh!
qHe has given his sons as fugitives,
rAnd his daughters into captivity,
To an Amorite king, Sihon.

30 “But we have shot them down with arrows,
Heshbon is destroyed as far as sDibon,
Then we have laid waste as far as Nophah,
Which reaches to Medeba.”

31 So Israel lived in the land of the Amorites. 32Now Moses sent men to spy out tJazer, and they captured its villages and dispossessed the Amorites who were there.

33 uThen they turned and went up by the way of Bashan, and Og the king of Bashan went out against them
Lit he and
with all his people, for battle at wEdrei.
34But the Lord said to Moses, “ xDo not fear him, for I have handed him over to you, and all his people and his land; and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon, king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon.” 35So ythey
Lit struck
killed him and his sons and all his people, until there was no survivor left; and they took possession of his land.
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