21 “And judgment has come on the plain country:
On Holon and Jahzah and Mephaath,

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21 Judgment has come to the plateau(A)
    to Holon,(B) Jahzah(C) and Mephaath,(D)

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18 (A)Jahaza, Kedemoth, Mephaath,

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18 Jahaz,(A) Kedemoth,(B) Mephaath,(C)

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Heshbon and Elealeh will cry out,
Their voice shall be heard as far as (A)Jahaz;
Therefore the [a]armed soldiers of Moab will cry out;
His life will be burdensome to him.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 15:4 So with MT, Tg., Vg.; LXX, Syr. loins

Heshbon(A) and Elealeh(B) cry out,
    their voices are heard all the way to Jahaz.(C)
Therefore the armed men of Moab cry out,
    and their hearts are faint.

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And (A)the plunderer shall come against every city;
No one shall escape.
The valley also shall perish,
And the plain shall be destroyed,
As the Lord has spoken.

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The destroyer(A) will come against every town,
    and not a town will escape.
The valley will be ruined
    and the plateau(B) destroyed,
    because the Lord has spoken.

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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.

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  1. Numbers 21:23 attacked

23 But Sihon would not let Israel pass through his territory.(A) He mustered his entire army and marched out into the wilderness against Israel. When he reached Jahaz,(B) he fought with Israel.(C)

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Therefore, as I live,”
Says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel,
“Surely (A)Moab shall be like Sodom,
And (B)the people of Ammon like Gomorrah—
(C)Overrun[a] with weeds and saltpits,
And a [b]perpetual desolation.
The residue of My people shall plunder them,
And the remnant of My people shall possess them.”

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Footnotes

  1. Zephaniah 2:9 Lit. Possessed by nettles
  2. Zephaniah 2:9 Or permanent ruin

Therefore, as surely as I live,”
    declares the Lord Almighty,
    the God of Israel,
“surely Moab(A) will become like Sodom,(B)
    the Ammonites(C) like Gomorrah—
a place of weeds and salt pits,
    a wasteland forever.
The remnant of my people will plunder(D) them;
    the survivors(E) of my nation will inherit their land.(F)

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therefore, behold, I will clear the territory of Moab of cities, of the cities on its frontier, the glory of the country, Beth Jeshimoth, Baal Meon, and (A)Kirjathaim.

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therefore I will expose the flank of Moab, beginning at its frontier towns—Beth Jeshimoth(A), Baal Meon(B) and Kiriathaim(C)—the glory of that land.

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36 [a]and from the tribe of Reuben, (A)Bezer with its common-land, Jahaz with its common-land, 37 Kedemoth with its common-land, and Mephaath with its common-land: four cities;

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  1. Joshua 21:36 So with LXX, Vg. (cf. 1 Chr. 6:78, 79); MT, Bg., Tg. omit vv. 36, 37

36 from the tribe of Reuben,

Bezer,(A) Jahaz,(B) 37 Kedemoth and Mephaath,(C) together with their pasturelands—four towns;

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