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New Testament
Numbers 21:21-35
The Defeat of Sihon and Og
21Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites to say, 22“Permit us to pass through your land. We will not turn aside into any field or vineyard. We will not drink the water from any well. We will stay on the King's Highway until we have passed through your territory.”
23Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his territory. Instead Sihon gathered all his people together and went out into the wilderness to confront Israel. When he came to Jahaz, he fought against Israel. 24Israel struck him with the sword and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, but only as far as the Ammonites, because the Ammonite border was strong. 25Israel took all these cities. Israel began living in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon and in all its villages. 26Because Heshbon had been the city of Sihon, the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab and taken from him all his land as far as the Arnon, 27therefore the poets[] say,
Come to Heshbon.
Let the city of Sihon be built and established,
28for a fire has gone out of Heshbon,
a flame from the town of Sihon.
It has consumed Ar of Moab
and engulfed the heights of the Arnon.
29Woe to you, Moab!
You are destroyed, people of Chemosh!
He has given up his sons as refugees,
and his daughters go into captivity
to Sihon king of the Amorites.
30We overthrew them.
Heshbon is destroyed as far as Dibon.
We have laid waste as far as Nophah.
Fire reaches as far as Medeba.
31So Israel lived in the land of the Amorites. 32Moses sent spies to Jazer. They took its towns and drove out the Amorites who were there. 33They turned and went up on the road to Bashan. Og king of Bashan came out with all his people to confront Israel in battle at Edrei.
34The Lord said to Moses, “Do not be afraid of him, for I have delivered him into your hand along with all his people and his land. You will do to him just as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.”
35So they struck him down along with his sons and all his people until there were no survivors. Then they took possession of his land.
Footnotes
- 21:27 Literally the ones who speak in proverbs or verses