Numbers 21:21-32
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21aThen Israel sent messengers to Sihon, king of the Amorites, saying, 22“aLet 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 highway until we have passed through your border.” 23aBut Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his border. So Sihon gathered all his people and went out to meet Israel in the wilderness and came to bJahaz and fought against Israel. 24Then aIsrael 1struck 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 bborder of the sons of Ammon was 2Jazer. 25And Israel took all these cities, and aIsrael lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all her 1towns. 26For Heshbon was the city of Sihon, king of the Amorites. Now it was he who had fought against the former king of Moab and had taken all his land out of his hand, as far as the Arnon. 27Therefore those who use proverbs say, “Come to Heshbon! Let it be built!So let the city of Sihon be established.
28“aFor a fire went forth from Heshbon,A flame from the town of Sihon;It devoured bAr of Moab,The 1,cdominant 2heights of the Arnon.29“aWoe to you, O Moab!You perish, O people of bChemosh!cHe has given his sons as fugitives,dAnd his daughters into captivity,To an Amorite king, Sihon.30“But we have cast them down,Heshbon perishes as far as aDibon,And we have made desolate even to Nophah,Which reaches to Medeba.”31Thus Israel lived in the land of the Amorites. 32And Moses sent to spy out aJazer, and they captured its towns and dispossessed the Amorites who were there.