the country (A)which the Lord defeated before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock, and your servants have livestock.”

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34 Then the Lord said to Moses, (A)“Do not fear him, for I have [a]delivered him into your hand, with all his people and his land; and (B)you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon.”

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 21:34 given you victory over him

24 “ ‘Rise, take your journey, and (A)cross over the River Arnon. Look, I have given into your hand (B)Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land. Begin [a]to possess it, and engage him in battle. 25 (C)This day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you upon the nations [b]under the whole heaven, who shall hear the report of you, and shall (D)tremble and be in anguish because of you.’

King Sihon Defeated(E)

26 “And I (F)sent messengers from the Wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon, (G)with words of peace, saying, 27 (H)‘Let me pass through your land; I will keep strictly to the road, and I will turn neither to the right nor to the left. 28 You shall sell me food for money, that I may eat, and give me water for money, that I may drink; (I)only let me pass through on foot, 29 (J)just as the descendants of Esau who dwell in Seir and the Moabites who dwell in Ar did for me, until I cross the Jordan to the land which the Lord our God is giving us.’

30 (K)“But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass through, for (L)the Lord your God (M)hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that He might deliver him into your hand, as it is this day.

31 “And the Lord said to me, ‘See, I have begun to (N)give Sihon and his land over to you. Begin to possess it, that you may inherit his land.’ 32 (O)Then Sihon and all his people came out against us to fight at Jahaz. 33 And (P)the Lord our God delivered him [c]over to us; so (Q)we defeated him, his sons, and all his people. 34 We took all his cities at that time, and we (R)utterly destroyed the men, women, and little ones of every city; we left none remaining. 35 We took only the livestock as plunder for ourselves, with the spoil of the cities which we took.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 2:24 to take possession
  2. Deuteronomy 2:25 everywhere under the heavens
  3. Deuteronomy 2:33 Lit. before us

24 Then (A)Israel defeated him with the edge of the sword, and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as the people of Ammon; for the border of the people of Ammon was fortified.

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