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And the class="small-caps" >Lord said, “Now get up and cross the Zered Valley.” So we crossed the valley.
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Thirty-eight years passed from the time we left Kadesh Barnea until we crossed the Zered Valley. By then, that entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the class="small-caps" >Lord had sworn to them.
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The class="small-caps" >Lord’s hand was against them until he had completely eliminated them from the camp.
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“Today you are to pass by the region of Moab at Ar.
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When you come to the Ammonites, do not harass them or provoke them to war, for I will not give you possession of any land belonging to the Ammonites. I have given it as a possession to the descendants of Lot.”
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(That too was considered a land of the Rephaites, who used to live there; but the Ammonites called them Zamzummites.
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They were a people strong and numerous, and as tall as the Anakites. The class="small-caps" >Lord destroyed them from before the Ammonites, who drove them out and settled in their place.
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The class="small-caps" >Lord had done the same for the descendants of Esau, who lived in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites from before them. They drove them out and have lived in their place to this day.
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And as for the Avvites who lived in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorites coming out from Caphtor destroyed them and settled in their place.)
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Defeat of Sihon King of Heshbon
“Set out now and cross the Arnon Gorge. See, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his country. Begin to take possession of it and engage him in battle.
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This very day I will begin to put the terror and fear of you on all the nations under heaven. They will hear reports of you and will tremble and be in anguish because of you.”
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“Let us pass through your country. We will stay on the main road; we will not turn aside to the right or to the left.
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Sell us food to eat and water to drink for their price in silver. Only let us pass through on foot—
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as the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir, and the Moabites, who live in Ar, did for us—until we cross the Jordan into the land the class="small-caps" >Lord our God is giving us.”
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But Sihon king of Heshbon refused to let us pass through. For the class="small-caps" >Lord your God had made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate in order to give him into your hands, as he has now done.
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The class="small-caps" >Lord said to me, “See, I have begun to deliver Sihon and his country over to you. Now begin to conquer and possess his land.”
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When Sihon and all his army came out to meet us in battle at Jahaz,
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At that time we took all his towns and completely destroyed them—men, women and children. We left no survivors.
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But the livestock and the plunder from the towns we had captured we carried off for ourselves.
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From Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Gorge, and from the town in the gorge, even as far as Gilead, not one town was too strong for us. The class="small-caps" >Lord our God gave us all of them.
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But in accordance with the command of the class="small-caps" >Lord our God, you did not encroach on any of the land of the Ammonites, neither the land along the course of the Jabbok nor that around the towns in the hills.
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Defeat of Og King of Bashan
Next we turned and went up along the road toward Bashan, and Og king of Bashan with his whole army marched out to meet us in battle at Edrei.
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The class="small-caps" >Lord said to me, “Do not be afraid of him, for I have delivered him into your hands, along with his whole army and his land. Do to him what you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon.”
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So the class="small-caps" >Lord our God also gave into our hands Og king of Bashan and all his army. We struck them down, leaving no survivors.
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At that time we took all his cities. There was not one of the sixty cities that we did not take from them—the whole region of Argob, Og’s kingdom in Bashan.
