Verse 21
Numbers 21:21
GOD'S WORD Translation
21
Israel sent messengers 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
1
The Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the South, heard that Israel came by the way of Athari...
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2
Israel vowed a vow to Yahweh, and said, “If you will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I...
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3
Yahweh listened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed...
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4
They traveled from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom The soul of th...
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5
The people spoke against God (Elohim), and against Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt t...
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6
Yahweh sent venomous snakes among the people, and they bit the people. Many people of Israel died.
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7
The people came to Moses, and said, “We have sinned, because we have spoken against Yahweh, and agai...
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8
Yahweh said to Moses, “Make a venomous snake, and set it on a pole. It shall happen, that everyone w...
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9
Moses made a serpent of brass, and set it on the pole. If a serpent had bitten any man, when he look...
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10
The children of Israel traveled, and encamped in Oboth.
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11
They traveled from Oboth, and encamped at Iyeabarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward...
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12
From there they traveled, and encamped in the valley of Zered.
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13
From there they traveled, and encamped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness, t...
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14
Therefore it is said in the book of the Wars of Yahweh, “Vaheb in Suphah, the valleys of the Arnon,
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15
the slope of the valleys that incline toward the dwelling of Ar, leans on the border of Moab.”
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16
From there they traveled to Beer; that is the well of which Yahweh said to Moses, “Gather the people...
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17
Then Israel sang this song:
“Spring up, well! Sing to it,
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18
the well, which the princes dug,
which the nobles of the people dug,
with the scepter, and with thei...
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19
and from Mattanah to Nahaliel; and from Nahaliel to Bamoth;
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20
and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looks down o...
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21
Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,
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“Let me pass through your land. We will not turn away into field or vineyard. We will not drink of t...
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23
Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his border, but Sihon gathered all his people together,...
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24
Israel struck him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, e...
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25
Israel took all these cities. Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all...
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26
For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king o...
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27
Therefore those who speak in proverbs say,
“Come to Heshbon.
Let the city of Sihon be built and esta...
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for a fire has gone out of Heshbon,
a flame from the city of Sihon.
It has devoured Ar of Moab,
The...
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29
Woe to you, Moab!
You are undone, people of Chemosh!
He has given his sons as fugitives,
and his dau...
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30
We have shot at them.
Heshbon has perished even to Dibon.
We have laid waste even to Nophah,
Which r...
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31
Thus Israel lived in the land of the Amorites.
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32
Moses sent to spy out Jazer. They took its villages, and drove out the Amorites who were there.
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33
They turned and went up by the way of Bashan. Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he and al...
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34
Yahweh said to Moses, “Don’t fear him, for I have delivered him into your hand, with all his people,...
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35
So they struck him, with his sons and all his people, until there were no survivors; and they posses...
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