Taken from the HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION (C) 1978 by the New York Bible Society, used by permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers. SIHON NUM 21:21 Israel sent messengers to say to Sihon king of the Amorites: NUM 21:22 "Let us pass through your country. We will not turn aside into any field or vineyard, or drink water from any well. We will travel along the king's highway until we have passed through your territory." NUM 21:23 But Sihon would not let Israel pass through his territory. He mustered his entire army and marched out into the desert against Israel. When he reached Jahaz, he fought with Israel. NUM 21:24 Israel, however, put him to the sword and took over his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, but only as far as the Ammonites, because their border was fortified. NUM 21:27 That is why the poets say: "Come to Heshbon and let it be rebuilt; let Sihon's city be restored. DEU 2:24 "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. DEU 2:25 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." DEU 2:26 From the desert of Kedemoth I sent messengers to Sihon king of Heshbon offering peace and saying, DEU 2:27 "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. DEU 2:28 Sell us food to eat and water to drink for their price in silver. Only let us pass through on foot-- DEU 2:29 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 LORD our God is giving us." DEU 2:30 But Sihon king of Heshbon refused to let us pass through. For the 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. DEU 2:31 The 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." DEU 2:32 When Sihon and all his army came out to meet us in battle at Jahaz, DEU 2:33 the LORD our God delivered him over to us and we struck him down, together with his sons and his whole army. DEU 2:34 At that time we took all his towns and completely destroyed them--men, women and children. We left no survivors. DEU 2:35 But the livestock and the plunder from the towns we had captured we carried off for ourselves. DEU 3:4 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. DEU 3:6 We completely destroyed them, as we had done with Sihon king of Heshbon, destroying every city--men, women and children. DEU 3:8 So at that time we took from these two kings of the Amorites the territory east of the Jordan, from the Arnon Gorge as far as Mount Hermon. Bible Bulletin Board internet: www.biblebb.com modem: 609-324-9187 Box 318 Columbus, NJ 08022 ....online since 1986 Sysop/Webmaster: Tony Capoccia