Verse 21
Numbers 21:21
Bible in Basic English
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And Israel sent men to Sihon, king of the Amorites, saying,
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יִּשְׁלַ֤ח יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ מַלְאָכִ֔ים אֶל סִיחֹ֥ן מֶֽלֶךְ הָ/אֱמֹרִ֖י לֵ/אמֹֽר
English Translation
And Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying.
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Chapter 21 Context
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And it came to the ears of the Canaanite, the king of Arad, living in the South, that Israel was com...
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Then Israel made an oath to the Lord, and said, If you will give up this people into my hands, then...
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And the Lord, in answer to the voice of Israel, gave the Canaanites up to them; and they put them an...
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Then they went on from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, going round the land of Edom: and the sp...
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5
And crying out against God (Elohim) and against Moses, they said, Why have you taken us out of Egypt...
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Then the Lord sent poison-snakes among the people; and their bites were a cause of death to numbers...
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Then the people came to Moses and said, We have done wrong in crying out against the Lord and agains...
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And the Lord said to Moses, Make an image of a snake and put it on a rod, and anyone who has been wo...
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So Moses made a snake of brass and put it on a rod; and anyone who had a snakebite, after looking on...
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10
Then the children of Israel went on and put up their tents in Oboth.
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And journeying on again from Oboth, they put up their tents in Iye-abarim, in the waste land before...
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12
And moving on from there, they put up their tents in the valley of Zered.
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From there they went on and put up their tents on the other side of the Arnon, which is on the waste...
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As it says in the book of the Wars of the Lord, Vaheb in Suphah, and the valley of the Amon;
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The slope of the valleys going down to the tents of Ar and touching the edge of Moab.
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From there they went on to Beer, the water-spring of which the Lord said to Moses, Make the people c...
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Then Israel gave voice to this song: Come up, O water-spring, let us make a song to it:
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The fountain made by the chiefs, made deep by the great ones of the people, with the law-givers' rod...
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And from Mattanah to Nahaliel: and from Nahaliel to Bamoth:
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And from Bamoth to the valley in the open country of Moab, and to the top of Pisgah looking over Jes...
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And Israel sent men to Sihon, king of the Amorites, saying,
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Let me go through your land: we will not go into field or vine-garden, or take the water of the spri...
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And Sihon would not let Israel go through his land; but got all his people together and went out aga...
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But Israel overcame him, and took all his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as the country o...
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And Israel took all their towns, living in Heshbon and all the towns and small places of the Amorite...
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For Heshbon was the town of Sihon, king of the Amorites, who had made war against an earlier king of...
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So the makers of wise sayings say, Come to Heshbon, building up the town of Sihon and making it stro...
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For a fire has gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the town of Sihon: for the destruction of Ar in Moa...
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Sorrow is yours, O Moab! Destruction is your fate, O people of Chemosh: his sons have gone in flight...
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They are wounded with our arrows; destruction has come on Heshbon, even to Dibon; and we have made t...
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So Israel put up their tents in the land of the Amorites.
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And Moses sent men secretly to Jazer, and they took its towns, driving out the Amorites who were liv...
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Then turning they went up by the way of Bashan; and Og, king of Bashan, went out against them with a...
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And the Lord said to Moses, Have no fear of him: for I have given him up into your hands, with all h...
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So they overcame him and his sons and his people, driving them all out: and they took his land for t...
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