Numbers 21:24
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24 (A)And Israel defeated him with the edge of the sword and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the (B)Jabbok, as far as to the Ammonites, for the border of the Ammonites was strong.
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Amos 2:9
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9 “Yet (A)it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them,
(B)whose height was like the height of the cedars
and who was as strong as the oaks;
(C)I destroyed his fruit above
and his roots beneath.
Psalm 136:19
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19 Sihon, king of the Amorites,
for his steadfast love endures forever;
Nehemiah 9:22
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22 “And you gave them kingdoms and peoples and allotted to them every corner. (A)So they took possession of the land of Sihon king of Heshbon (B)and the land of Og king of Bashan.
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Joshua 24:8
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8 Then I brought you to the land of the Amorites, who lived on the other side of the Jordan. (A)They fought with you, and I gave them into your hand, and you took possession of their land, and I destroyed them before you.
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Genesis 32:22
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Jacob Wrestles with God
22 The same night he arose and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven children,[a] and crossed the ford of the (A)Jabbok.
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- Genesis 32:22 Or sons
Judges 21:8
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8 And they said, “What one is there of the tribes of Israel that did not come up to the Lord to Mizpah?” And behold, no one had come to the camp from (A)Jabesh-gilead, to the assembly.
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Judges 12:1-2
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Jephthah's Conflict with Ephraim
12 (A)The men of Ephraim were called to arms, and they crossed to Zaphon and said to Jephthah, “Why did you cross over to fight against the Ammonites and did not call us to go with you? We will burn your house over you with fire.” 2 And Jephthah said to them, “I and my people had a great dispute with the Ammonites, and when I called you, you did not save me from their hand.
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Judges 11:21-23
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21 And the Lord, the God of Israel, gave Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they defeated them. So Israel took possession of all the land of the Amorites, who inhabited that country. 22 And they took possession of all the territory of the Amorites from the Arnon to the Jabbok and from the wilderness to the Jordan. 23 So then the Lord, the God of Israel, dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel; and are you to take possession of them?
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Joshua 13:8-10
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The Inheritance East of the Jordan
8 With the other half of the tribe of Manasseh[a] the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, (A)which Moses gave them, beyond the Jordan eastward, as Moses the servant of the Lord gave them: 9 (B)from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and (C)all the tableland of Medeba as far as Dibon; 10 (D)and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the boundary of the Ammonites;
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- Joshua 13:8 Hebrew With it
Joshua 12:1-3
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Kings Defeated by Moses
12 Now these are the kings of the land whom the people of Israel defeated and took possession of their land beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise, from (A)the Valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon, with all (B)the Arabah eastward: 2 (C)Sihon king of the Amorites who lived at Heshbon and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and (D)from the middle of the valley as far as the (E)river Jabbok, the boundary of the Ammonites, that is, half of Gilead, 3 and (F)the Arabah (G)to the Sea of Chinneroth eastward, and in the direction of Beth-jeshimoth, to the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, southward to the foot of (H)the slopes of Pisgah;
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Joshua 9:10
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10 (A)and all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon the king of Heshbon, and to Og king of Bashan, who lived in (B)Ashtaroth.
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Deuteronomy 29:7
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7 And when you came to this place, (A)Sihon the king of Heshbon and Og the king of Bashan came out against us to battle, but we defeated them.
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Deuteronomy 3:16
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16 and to the Reubenites (A)and the Gadites I gave the territory from Gilead as far as the Valley of the Arnon, with the middle of the valley as a border, as far over as the river Jabbok, (B)the border of the Ammonites;
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Deuteronomy 2:31-37
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31 And the Lord said to me, ‘Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land over to you. Begin to take possession, that you may occupy his land.’ 32 Then (A)Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Jahaz. 33 And (B)the Lord our God gave him over to us, and (C)we defeated him and his sons and all his people. 34 And we captured all his cities at that time and devoted to destruction[a] every (D)city, men, women, and children. We left no survivors. 35 Only the livestock we took as spoil for ourselves, with the plunder of the cities that we captured. 36 (E)From Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and from (F)the city that is in the valley, as far as Gilead, there was not a city too high for us. (G)The Lord our God gave all into our hands. 37 Only to the land of the sons of Ammon you did not draw near, that is, to all the banks of the river (H)Jabbok and the cities of the hill country, whatever the Lord our God had forbidden us.
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- Deuteronomy 2:34 That is, set apart (devoted) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction)
Numbers 32:33-42
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33 And (A)Moses gave to them, to the people of Gad and to the people of Reuben and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land and its cities with their territories, the cities of the land throughout the country. 34 And the people of Gad built (B)Dibon, (C)Ataroth, (D)Aroer, 35 Atroth-shophan, (E)Jazer, Jogbehah, 36 (F)Beth-nimrah and Beth-haran, (G)fortified cities, and folds for sheep. 37 And the people of Reuben built (H)Heshbon, (I)Elealeh, Kiriathaim, 38 (J)Nebo, and (K)Baal-meon ((L)their names were changed), and (M)Sibmah. And they gave other names to the cities that they built. 39 And the sons of (N)Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead and captured it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were in it. 40 And Moses (O)gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh, and he settled in it. 41 And (P)Jair the son of Manasseh went and captured their villages, and called them Havvoth-jair.[a] 42 And Nobah went and captured Kenath and its villages, and called it Nobah, after his own name.
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- Numbers 32:41 Havvoth-jair means the villages of Jair
Numbers 32:1-4
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Reuben and Gad Settle in Gilead
32 Now the people of Reuben and the people of Gad had a very great number of livestock. And they saw the land of (A)Jazer and the land of Gilead, and behold, the place was a place for livestock. 2 So the people of Gad and the people of Reuben came and said to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the chiefs of the congregation, 3 (B)“Ataroth, (C)Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, (D)Nebo, and Beon, 4 the land (E)that the Lord struck down before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock, and your servants have livestock.”
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Numbers 21:13
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13 From there they set out and camped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness that extends from the border of the Amorites, for the (A)Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.
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