Numbers 21:21 References
a Deuteronomy 2:26-37, Judges 11:19
Deuteronomy 2
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"aSo I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,
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'Let me pass through your land, I will travel only on the highway; I will not turn aside to the right or to the left.
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'You will sell me food for money so that I may eat, and give me water for money so that I may drink, aonly let me pass through on foot,
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just as the sons of Esau who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in aAr did for me, until I cross over the Jordan into the land which the Lord our God is giving to us.'
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"But aSihon king of Heshbon was not willing for us to pass through his land; for the bLord your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, in order to deliver him into your hand, as he is today.
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"The Lord said to me, 'See, I have begun to deliver Sihon and his land over to you. Begin to occupy, that you may possess his land.'
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"Then Sihon with all his people came out to meet us in battle at Jahaz.
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"aThe Lord our God delivered him over to us, and we bdefeated him with his sons and all his people.
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"So we captured all his cities at that time and autterly destroyed the men, women and children of every city. We left no survivor.
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"From aAroer which is on the edge of the valley of Arnon and from the city which is in the valley, even to Gilead, there was no city that was too high for us; the Lord our God delivered all over to us.
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"aOnly you did not go near to the land of the sons of Ammon, all along the river bJabbok and the cities of the hill country, and wherever the Lord our God had commanded us.