The Command to Leave Horeb

1 These are the words Moses spoke to all Israel in the wilderness east of the Jordan^(A)—that is, in the Arabah^(B)—opposite Suph, between Paran^(C) and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth and Dizahab.

David, Nabal and Abigail

25 Now Samuel died,^(A) and all Israel assembled and mourned^(B) for him; and they buried him at his home in Ramah.^(C) Then David moved down into the Desert of Paran.^[a]

⁷ (To the half-tribe of Manasseh Moses had given land in Bashan,^(A) and to the other half of the tribe Joshua gave land on the west side^(B) of the Jordan along with their fellow Israelites.) When Joshua sent them home, he blessed them,^(C)

⁴ Now that the Lord your God has given them rest^(A) as he promised, return to your homes^(B) in the land that Moses the servant of the Lord gave you on the other side of the Jordan.^(C)

¹⁰ and all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites east of the Jordan—Sihon king of Heshbon,^(A) and Og king of Bashan,^(B) who reigned in Ashtaroth.^(C)

The Gibeonite Deception

9 Now when all the kings west of the Jordan heard about these things—the kings in the hill country,^(A) in the western foothills, and along the entire coast of the Mediterranean Sea^(B) as far as Lebanon^(C) (the kings of the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites,^(D) Hivites^(E) and Jebusites)^(F)—

² He said:

¹⁴ Give three on this side of the Jordan and three in Canaan as cities of refuge.

¹⁵ These two and a half tribes have received their inheritance east of the Jordan across from Jericho, toward the sunrise.”