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23 The Avvim, who lived in villages up to Gaza,[a] were destroyed by the Caphtorim who came from Caphtor. They dwell in their place.)

24 Defeat of Sihon.“Rise, set out and cross over the Valley of the Arnon. I have given Sihon the Amorite, the king of Heshbon, and his land into your hands. Start to occupy it and do battle with him. 25 From today on I will place terror and fear of you in all of the nations under the heavens. Whoever hears about you will tremble and be in anguish because of you.”

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 2:23 Gaza: a stronghold of the Philistines (see Am 9:7), who had entered Palestine in the thirteenth/twelfth century B.C.; Caphtor (Egyptian, Keftiu): Crete and the islands and coasts of the eastern Mediterranean.