²⁴Arise ye, and pass the torrent Arnon: Behold I have delivered into thy hand Sehon king of Hesebon the Amorrhite, and begin thou to possess his land and make war against him.

²⁵This day will I begin to send the dread and fear of thee upon the nations that dwell under the whole heaven: that when they hear thy name they may fear and tremble, and be in pain like women in travail.

²⁶So I sent messengers from the wilderness of Cademoth to Sehon the king of Hesebon with peaceable words, saying:

²⁷We will pass through thy land, we will go along by the highway: we will not turn aside neither to the right hand nor to the left.

²⁸Sell us meat for money, that we may eat: give us water for money and so we will drink. We only ask that thou wilt let us pass through,

²⁹As the children of Esau have done, that dwell in Seir, and the Moabites, that abide in Ar: until we come to the Jordan, and pass to the land which the Lord our God will give us.

³⁰And Sehon the king of Hesebon would not let us pass: because the Lord thy God had hardened his spirit, and fixed his heart, that he might be delivered into thy hands, as now thou seest.

³¹And the Lord said to me: Behold I have begun to deliver unto thee Sehon and his land, begin to possess it.

³²And Sehon came out to meet us with all his people to fight at Jasa.

³³And the Lord our God delivered him to us: and we slew him with his sons and all his people.

³⁴And we took all his cities at that time, killing the inhabitants of them, men and women and children. We left nothing of them:

³⁵Except the cattle which came to the share of them that took them: and the spoils of the cities, which we took:

³⁶From Aroer, which is upon the bank of the torrent Arnon, a town that is situate in a valley, as far as Galaad. There was not a village or city, that escaped our hands: the Lord our God delivered all unto us:

³⁷Except the land of the children of Ammon, to which we approached not: and all that border upon the torrent Jeboc, and the cities in the mountains, and all the places which the Lord our God forbade us.

Chapter 3

Then we turned and went by the way of Basan: and Og the king of Basan came out to meet us with his people to fight in Edrai.

²And the Lord said to me: Fear him not: because he is delivered into thy hand, with all his people and his land: and thou shalt do to him as thou hast done to Sehon king of the Amorrhites, that dwelt in Hesebon.

³So the Lord our God delivered into our hands, Og also, the king of Basan, and all his people: and we utterly destroyed them,

⁴Wasting all his cities at one time, there was not a town that escaped us: sixty cities, all the country of Argob the kingdom of Og in Basan.

⁵All the cities were fenced with very high walls, and with gates and bars, besides innumerable towns that had no walls.

⁶And we utterly destroyed them, as we had done to Sehon the king of Hesebon, destroying every city, men and women and children:

⁷But the cattle and the spoils of the cities we took for our prey.

⁸And we took at that time the land out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorrhites, that were beyond the Jordan: from the torrent Arnon unto the mount Hermon,

⁹Which the Sidonians call Sarion, and the Amorrhites Sanir:

¹⁰All the cities that are situate in the plain, and all the land of Galaad and Basan as far as Selcha and Edrai, cities of the kingdom of Og in Basan.

¹¹For only Og king of Basan remained of the race of the giants. His bed of iron is shewn, which is in Rabbath of the children of Ammon, being nine cubits long, and four broad after the measure of the cubit of a man’s hand.

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