Chapter 21
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And Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying:
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Let us pass through your land. We will not turn aside into the field or into the vineyard. We will not drink water from a well. We will go on the king's way until we have passed your boundary.
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Sihon did not allow Israel to pass through his border. Sihon gathered all his people and went out to meet Israel in the wilderness. He came to Jahaz and fought against Israel.
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Israel struck him with the edge of the sword and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, to the sons of Ammon, for the boundary of the sons of Ammon was strong.
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Israel took all these cities, and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon and in all its daughter cities.
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For Heshbon was the city of Sihon king of the Amorites. He had fought against the former king of Moab and taken all his land as far as Arnon.
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Therefore the proverb-sayers say: "Come, Heshbon! Let the city be built and established, Sihon's city."
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For fire went out from Heshbon, a blaze from the city of Sihon. It devoured Ar of Moab, the lords of the high places of Arnon.
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Woe to you, Moab! You have perished, people of Chemosh. He gave his sons as refugees, and his daughters into captivity to the king of the Amorites, Sihon.
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And their wick-trimming perished, from Heshbon as far as Dibon, and the women as far as Nophah, which as far as Medeba.
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Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorite.
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Moses sent men to spy out Jaazer, and they captured its daughters and dispossessed the Amorite who was there.
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They turned and went up the way to Bashan, and Og king of Bashan went out to meet them—he and all his people—to war at Edrei.
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The LORD said to Moses, "Do not fear him, for I have given him, all his people, and his land into your hand. You shall do to him just as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwells in Heshbon."
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And they struck him and his sons and all his people until there was not left to him a survivor, and they possessed his land.