Numbers [In the desert] 21:16-32

¹⁶From there they traveled to Beer; that is the well of which Adonai said to Moses Drawn out, “Gather the people together, and I will give them water.”

¹⁷Then Israel God prevails sang this song: “Spring up, well! Sing to it,

¹⁸the well, which the princes dug, which the nobles of the people dug, with the scepter, and with their poles.” From the wilderness they traveled to Mattanah;

¹⁹and from Mattanah to Nahaliel; and from Nahaliel to Bamoth;

²⁰and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab From father, to the top of Pisgah, which looks down on the desert. (RY:4, LY:7)

²¹Israel God prevails sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites Descendants of Talkers, saying,

²²“Let me pass through your land. We will not turn aside into field, or into vineyard. We will not drink of the water of the wells. We will go by the king’s highway, until we have passed your border.”

²³Sihon would not allow Israel God prevails to pass through his border, but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel God prevails into the wilderness, and came to Jahaz. He fought against Israel God prevails.

²⁴Israel God prevails struck him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, even to the children of Ammon Tribal people; for the border of the children of Ammon Tribal people was strong.

²⁵Israel God prevails took all these cities. Israel God prevails lived in all the cities of the Amorites Descendants of Talkers, in Heshbon, and in all its villages.

²⁶For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites Descendants of Talkers, who had fought against the former king of Moab From father, and taken all his land out of his hand, even to the Arnon.

²⁷Therefore those who speak in proverbs say, “Come to Heshbon. Let the city of Sihon be built and established;

²⁸for a fire has gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon. It has devoured Ar of Moab From father, The lords of the high places of the Arnon.

²⁹Woe to you, Moab From father! You are undone, people of Chemosh! He has given his sons as fugitives, and his daughters into captivity, to Sihon king of the Amorites Descendants of Talkers.

³⁰We have shot at them. Heshbon has perished even to Dibon. We have laid waste even to Nophah, Which reaches to Medeba.”

³¹Thus Israel God prevails lived in the land of the Amorites Descendants of Talkers.

³²Moses Drawn out sent to spy out Jazer. They took its villages, and drove out the Amorites Descendants of Talkers who were there.