Numbers 21:21-30
1599 Geneva Bible
21 ¶ Then Israel sent messengers unto Sihon, king of the Amorites, saying,
22 (A)Let me go through thy land: we will not turn aside into the fields, nor into the vineyards, neither drink of the waters of the wells: we will go by the king’s way, until we be past thy country.
23 (B)But Sihon gave Israel no license to pass through his country, but Sihon assembled all his people, and went out against Israel into the wilderness, and he came to Jahaz, and fought against Israel.
24 (C)But Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and conquered his land, from Arnon unto [a]Jabbok, even unto the children of Ammon, for the border of the children of Ammon was [b]strong.
25 And Israel took all these cities, and dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites in Heshbon, and in all the [c]villages thereof.
26 For [d]Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, which had fought beforetime against the king of the Moabites, and had taken all his land out of his hand, even unto Arnon.
27 Wherefore they that speak in proverbs, say, Come to Heshbon, let the city of Sihon be built and repaired,
28 For [e]a fire is gone out of Heshbon, and a flame from the city of Sihon, and hath consumed Ar of the Moabites, and the lords of Bamoth in Arnon.
29 Woe be to thee, Moab: O people of [f]Chemosh, thou art undone: he hath suffered his sons to be pursued, and his daughters to be in captivity to Sihon the king of the Amorites.
30 Their [g]empire also is lost from Heshbon unto Dibon, and we have destroyed them unto Nophah, which reacheth unto Medeba.
Read full chapterFootnotes
- Numbers 21:24 The river.
- Numbers 21:24 For the people were tall and strong like giants, Deut. 2:20.
- Numbers 21:25 Hebrew, daughters.
- Numbers 21:26 For if it had been the Moabites, the Israelites might not have possessed it, Deut. 2:9.
- Numbers 21:28 Meaning, war.
- Numbers 21:29 Chemosh was the idol of the Moabites, 1 Kings 11:33, who was not able to defend his worshippers, which took the idol for their father.
- Numbers 21:30 Hebrew, light.
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