The Great Day of God

Israel’s Rebellions Reviewed^(A)

9 “Hear, O Israel: You are to cross over the Jordan today, and go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to heaven, ² a people great and tall, the ^(B)descendants of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you heard it said, ‘Who can stand before the descendants of Anak?’ ³ Therefore understand today that the Lord your God is He who ^(C)goes over before you as a ^(D)consuming fire. ^(E)He will destroy them and bring them down before you; ^(F)so you shall drive them out and destroy them quickly, as the Lord has said to you.

^11 (A)“For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of ^(B)the ^[a]giants. Indeed his bedstead was an iron bedstead. (Is it not in ^(C)Rabbah of the people of Ammon?) Nine cubits is its length and four cubits its width, according to the standard cubit.

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.

^23 (A)But Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his territory. So Sihon gathered all his people together and ^[a]went out against Israel in the wilderness, ^(B)and he came to Jahaz and fought against Israel. ²⁴ Then ^(C)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. ²⁵ So Israel took all these cities, and Israel ^(D)dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon and in all its villages.

³² And they ^(A)gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and ^(B)all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature. ³³ There we saw the ^[a]giants (^(C)the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were ^(D)like^[b] grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were ^(E)in their sight.”

²⁸ Nevertheless the ^(A)people who dwell in the land are strong; the cities are fortified and very large; moreover we saw the descendants of ^(B)Anak there. ^29 (C)The Amalekites dwell in the land of the South; the Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the mountains; and the Canaanites dwell by the sea and along the banks of the Jordan.”