Two Victories

^21 (A)Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon, king of the Amorites, saying, ²² “^(B)Let me pass through your land. We will not turn off into field or vineyard; we will not drink water from wells. We will go by the king’s road until we have passed through your border.” ^23 (C)But Sihon would not permit Israel to pass through his border. Instead, Sihon gathered all his people and went out against Israel in the wilderness, and came to ^(D)Jahaz and fought against Israel. ²⁴ Then ^(E)Israel struck him with the edge of the sword, and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as the sons of Ammon; for the ^(F)border of the sons of Ammon was ^[a]Jazer.

^33 (A)Then they turned and went up by the way of Bashan, and Og the king of Bashan went out against them ^[a]with all his people, for battle at ^(B)Edrei.

³⁵ So ^(A)they ^[a]killed him and his sons and all his people, until there was no survivor left; and they took possession of his land.

²⁶ “^(A)So I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying, ²⁷ ‘Let me pass through your land; I will ^[a]travel only on the road. I will not turn aside to the right or to the left. ²⁸ You will sell me food for money so that I may eat, and give me water for money so that I may drink, ^(B)only let me pass through on ^[b]foot, ²⁹ just as the sons of Esau who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in ^(C)Ar did for me, until I cross over the Jordan into the land that the Lord our God is giving us.’ ³⁰ But ^(D)Sihon king of Heshbon was not willing for us to pass ^[c]through his land; for the ^(E)Lord your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, in order to hand him over to you, as he is today. ³¹ And the Lord said to me, ‘See, I have begun to turn Sihon and his land over ^[d]to you. Begin taking possession, so that you may possess his land.’

³² “Then Sihon came out ^[e]with all his people to meet us in battle at Jahaz. ³³ And ^(F)the Lord our God turned him over ^[f]to us, and we ^[g](G)defeated him with his sons and all his people. ³⁴ So we captured all his cities at that time and ^[h](H)utterly destroyed ^[i]the men, women, and children of every city. We left no survivor. ³⁵ We took ^(I)only the animals as our plunder, and the spoils of the cities which we had captured. ³⁶ From ^(J)Aroer which is on the edge of the ^[j]Valley of Arnon and from the city which is in the ^[k]valley, even to Gilead, there was no city that was too ^[l]high for us; the Lord our God turned it all over ^[m]to us. ^37 (K)Only you did not go near the land of the sons of Ammon, all along the ^[n]river ^(L)Jabbok and the cities of the hill country, and wherever the Lord our God had commanded us to avoid.

Conquests Recounted

3 “^(M)Then we turned and went up the road to Bashan, and Og, king of Bashan, came out ^[o]with all his people to meet us in battle at Edrei. ² But the Lord said to me, ‘Do not fear him, for I have handed him and all his people and his land over to you; and you shall do to him just as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon.’ ³ So the Lord our God also handed over to us Og, king of Bashan, with all his people, and we struck ^[p]them until no survivor was ^[q]left. ⁴ We captured all his cities at that time; there was not a city which we did not take from them: sixty cities, all the region of ^(N)Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. ⁵ All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides a great many ^[r]unwalled towns. ⁶ We ^[s]utterly destroyed them, as we did to ^(O)Sihon king of Heshbon, ^[t](P)utterly destroying ^[u]the men, women, and children of every city. ^7 (Q)But all the animals and the spoils of the cities we took as our plunder.

⁸ “^(R)So at that time we took the land from the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the ^[v]Valley of Arnon to Mount Hermon ⁹ (Sidonians ^(S)call Hermon ^(T)Sirion, and the Amorites call it ^(U)Senir): ¹⁰ all the cities of the plateau, all Gilead, and ^(V)all Bashan, as far as Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. ¹¹ (For only Og king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the ^(W)Rephaim. Behold, his ^[w]bed was a ^[x]bed of iron; it is in ^(X)Rabbah of the sons of Ammon. Its length was nine cubits, and its width four cubits by ^[y]the usual cubit.)

¹² “So we took possession of this land at that time. From ^(Y)Aroer, which is by the ^[z]Valley of Arnon, and half the hill country of ^(Z)Gilead and its cities I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites. ¹³ The rest of Gilead and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh, all the region of Argob. (As to all Bashan, it is called the land of Rephaim. ^14 (AA)Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, that is, Bashan, and named ^[aa]it after his own name: ^[ab]Havvoth-jair, as it is to this day.) ^15 (AB)To Machir I gave Gilead. ¹⁶ To the Reubenites and the Gadites I gave from Gilead even as far as the ^[ac]Valley of Arnon, the middle of the ^[ad]valley ^[ae]as a border, and as far as the ^[af]river ^(AC)Jabbok, the border of the sons of Ammon; ¹⁷ the Arabah also, with the Jordan ^[ag]as a border, from ^[ah](AD)Chinnereth ^(AE)even as far as the sea of the Arabah, ^(AF)the Salt Sea, ^[ai]at the foot of the slopes of Pisgah on the east.