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24 Moses continued: »Cross over the Arnon River. I will help you defeat Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon and his country. Possess his land and engage him in battle.
25 »From this day forward I will make all the people and nations through out the earth afraid of you. They will hear reports about you and tremble and be in anguish because of you.
26 »I sent messengers from the desert of Kedemoth to King Sihon of Heshbon with the following offer of peace:
27 ‘If you allow us to travel through your country, we will go straight through and will not leave the road.
28 ‘We will pay you in silver for the food we eat and the water we drink. Please let us go through,
29 as the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir, and the Moabites, who live in Ar, did for us. We will keep going until we cross the Jordan River into the land Jehovah our God is giving us.’
30 King Sihon of Heshbon would not allow us to pass through. Jehovah your God made him stubborn and overconfident in order to hand him over to you, as he has now done.
31 »Then Jehovah said to me: ‘I make King Sihon and his land helpless before you. Capture his land and occupy it.’
32 Sihon came out with all his men to fight us near the town of Jahaz,
33 and Jehovah our God helped us defeat them. We killed Sihon, his sons, and all his people.
34 We captured and destroyed every town in Sihon's kingdom. We killed everyone.
35 We took the livestock and everything else of value.
36 Jehovah helped us capture every town from the Arnon River Gorge north to the boundary of Gilead. This included the town of Aroer on the edge of the gorge and the town in the middle of the gorge.
37 However, we did not go near the Ammonite towns, both in the mountains and near the Jabbok River, just as Jehovah commanded.
3 1 »Next we headed for the land of Bashan. King Og of Bashan and all his army came to fight us at Edrei.
2 »Jehovah said to me: ‘Do not be afraid of him. I will hand him, all his army, and his land, over to you. Do to him what you did to King Sihon of the Amorites, who ruled in Heshbon.’
3 »So Jehovah our God also handed King Og of Bashan and all his army over to us. We defeated him and left no survivors.
4 »We captured all his cities. Not one was missed. We captured a total of sixty cities in the territory of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
5 »All of these cities were fortified with high walls and double-door gates with bars across the gates. We also captured a large number of unwalled villages.
6 »We destroyed all the towns and put to death all the men, women, and children. This was just as we did in the towns that belonged to King Sihon of Heshbon.
7 »We kept the livestock and took plunder from the towns.
8 »Sihon and Og ruled Amorite kingdoms east of the Jordan River. Their land stretched from the Arnon River Gorge in the south to Mount Hermon in the north. We captured it all.
9 »Mount Hermon is called Mount Sirion by the people of Sidon. The Amorites call it Mount Senir.
10 »All the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, and Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan were captured.
11 »Of the Rephaim only King Og of Bashan was left. His bed was made of iron and was more than thirteen feet long and six feet wide. It is still in the Ammonite city of Rabbah.
12 »We took possession of this land. I gave the tribes of Reuben and Gad the land north of Aroer near the Arnon Valley and half of the mountain region of Gilead with its cities.
13 »I assigned the rest of Gilead and also all of Bashan, where Og had ruled, that is, the entire Argob region to half the tribe of Manasseh. Bashan was known as the land of the Rephaim.
14 Jair, from the tribe of Manasseh, took the entire region of Argob, that is, Bashan, as far as the border of Geshur and Maacah. He named the villages after himself, and they are still known as the villages of Jair.
15 I assigned Gilead to the clan of Machir of the tribe of Manasseh.
16 »I assigned the territory from Gilead to the Arnon River to the tribes of Reuben and Gad. The middle of the river was their southern boundary, and their northern boundary was the Jabbok River, part of which formed the Ammonite border.
17 »On the west their territory extended to the Jordan River, from Lake Galilee in the north down to the Dead Sea in the south and to the foot of (Mount) Pisgah on the east.