Joshua 13:21

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Joshua 13:19–23 · Berean Standard Bible

19 Kiriathaim, Sibmah, Zereth-shahar on the hill in the valley,

20 Beth-peor, the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth-jeshimoth—

21 all the cities of the plateau and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon until Moses killed him and the chiefs of Midian (Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba), the princes of Sihon who lived in the land.

22 The Israelites also killed the diviner Balaam son of Beor along with the others they put to the sword.

23 And the border of the Reubenites was the bank of the Jordan. This was the inheritance of the clans of the Reubenites, including the cities and villages.

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Deuteronomy 3:10

all the cities of the plateau, all of Gilead, and all of Bashan as far as the cities of Salecah and Edrei in the kingdom of Og.

Numbers 21:24

And Israel put him to the sword and took possession of his land, from the Arnon to the Jabbok—but only up to the border of the Ammonites, because it was fortified.

Numbers 21:25

Israel captured all the cities of the Amorites and occupied them, including Heshbon and all its villages.

Numbers 21:26

Heshbon was the city of Sihon king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab and taken all his land as far as the Arnon.

Numbers 21:27

That is why the poets say: “Come to Heshbon, let it be rebuilt; let the city of Sihon be restored.

Numbers 21:28

For a fire went out from Heshbon, a blaze from the city of Sihon. It consumed Ar of Moab, the rulers of Arnon’s heights.

Numbers 21:29

Woe to you, O Moab! You are destroyed, O people of Chemosh! He gave up his sons as refugees, and his daughters into captivity to Sihon king of the Amorites.

Numbers 21:30

But we have overthrown them; Heshbon is destroyed as far as Dibon. We demolished them as far as Nophah, which reaches to Medeba.”

Numbers 21:31

So Israel lived in the land of the Amorites.

Numbers 21:32

After Moses had sent spies to Jazer, Israel captured its villages and drove out the Amorites who were there.

Numbers 21:33

Then they turned and went up the road to Bashan, and Og king of Bashan and his whole army came out to meet them in battle at Edrei.

Numbers 21:34

But the LORD said to Moses, “Do not fear him, for I have delivered him into your hand, along with all his people and his land. Do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon.”

Numbers 21:35

So they struck down Og, along with his sons and his whole army, until no remnant was left. And they took possession of his land.

Deuteronomy 2:30

But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass through, for the LORD your God had made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate, that He might deliver him into your hand, as is the case this day.

Deuteronomy 2:31

Then the LORD said to me, “See, I have begun to deliver Sihon and his land over to you. Now begin to conquer and possess his land.”

Deuteronomy 2:32

So Sihon and his whole army came out for battle against us at Jahaz.

Deuteronomy 2:33

And the LORD our God delivered him over to us, and we defeated him and his sons and his whole army.

Deuteronomy 2:34

At that time we captured all his cities and devoted to destruction the people of every city, including women and children. We left no survivors.

Deuteronomy 2:35

We carried off for ourselves only the livestock and the plunder from the cities we captured.

Deuteronomy 2:36

From Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the valley, even as far as Gilead, not one city had walls too high for us. The LORD our God gave us all of them.

Numbers 31:8

Among the slain were Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba—the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam son of Beor with the sword.