Bible Cross References
After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei:
Deuteronomy 2:26-37
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"Then I sent messengers from the desert of Kedemoth to King Sihon of Heshbon with the following offer of peace:
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'Let us pass through your country. We will go straight through and not leave the road.
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We will pay for the food we eat and the water we drink. All we want to do is to pass through your country,
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until we cross the Jordan River into the land that the LORD our God is giving us. The descendants of Esau, who live in Edom, and the Moabites, who live in Ar, allowed us to pass through their territory.'
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"But King Sihon would not let us pass through his country. The LORD your God had made him stubborn and rebellious, so that we could defeat him and take his territory, which we still occupy.
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"Then the LORD said to me, 'Look, I have made King Sihon and his land helpless before you; take his land and occupy it.'
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Sihon came out with all his men to fight us near the town of Jahaz,
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but the LORD our God put him in our power, and we killed him, his sons, and all his men.
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At the same time we captured and destroyed every town, and put everyone to death, men, women, and children. We left no survivors.
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We took the livestock and plundered the towns.
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The LORD our God let us capture all the towns from Aroer, on the edge of the Arnon Valley, and the city in the middle of that valley, all the way to Gilead. No town had walls too strong for us.
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But we did not go near the territory of the Ammonites or to the banks of the Jabbok River or to the towns of the hill country or to any other place where the LORD our God had commanded us not to go.
Deuteronomy 3:1-11
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"Next, we moved north toward the region of Bashan, and King Og came out with all his men to fight us near the town of Edrei.
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But the LORD said to me, 'Don't be afraid of him. I am going to give him, his men, and all his territory to you. Do the same thing to him that you did to Sihon the Amorite king who ruled in Heshbon.'
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"So the LORD also placed King Og and his people in our power, and we slaughtered them all.
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At the same time we captured all his towns---there was not one that we did not take. In all we captured sixty towns---the whole region of Argob, where King Og of Bashan ruled.
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All these towns were fortified with high walls, gates, and bars to lock the gates, and there were also many villages without walls.
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We destroyed all the towns and put to death all the men, women, and children, just as we did in the towns that belonged to King Sihon of Heshbon.
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We took the livestock and plundered the towns.
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"At that time we took from those two Amorite kings the land east of the Jordan River, from the Arnon River to Mount Hermon.
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(Mount Hermon is called Sirion by the Sidonians, and Senir by the Amorites.)
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We took all the territory of King Og of Bashan: the cities on the plateau, the regions of Gilead and of Bashan, as far east as the towns of Salecah and Edrei."
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(King Og was the last of the Rephaim. His coffin, made of stone, was six feet wide and almost fourteen feet long, according to standard measurements. It can still be seen in the Ammonite city of Rabbah.)
Numbers 21:21-35
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Then the people of Israel sent messengers to the Amorite king Sihon to say:
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"Let us pass through your land. We and our cattle will not leave the road and go into your fields or vineyards, and we will not drink water from your wells; we will stay on the main road until we are out of your territory."
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But Sihon would not permit the people of Israel to pass through his territory. He gathered his army and went out to Jahaz in the wilderness and attacked the Israelites.
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But the Israelites killed many of the enemy in battle and occupied their land from the Arnon River north to the Jabbok, that is, to the Ammonites, because the Ammonite border was strongly defended.
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So the people of Israel captured all the Amorite cities, including Heshbon and all the surrounding towns, and settled in them.
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Heshbon was the capital city of the Amorite king Sihon, who had fought against the former king of Moab and had captured all his land as far as the Arnon River.
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That is why the poets sing, "Come to Heshbon, to King Sihon's city! We want to see it rebuilt and restored.
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Once from this city of Heshbon Sihon's army went forth like a fire; It destroyed the city of Ar in Moab And devoured the hills of the upper Arnon.
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How terrible for you, people of Moab! You worshipers of Chemosh are brought to ruin! Your god let the men become refugees, And the women became captives of the Amorite king.
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But now their descendants are destroyed, All the way from Heshbon to Dibon, From Nashim to Nophah, near Medeba."
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So the people of Israel settled in the territory of the Amorites,
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and Moses sent men to find the best way to attack the city of Jazer. The Israelites captured it and its surrounding towns and drove out the Amorites living there.
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Then the Israelites turned and took the road to Bashan, and King Og of Bashan marched out with his army to attack them at Edrei.
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The LORD said to Moses, "Do not be afraid of him. I will give you victory over him, all his people, and his land. Do to him what you did to Sihon, the Amorite king who ruled at Heshbon."
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So the Israelites killed Og, his sons, and all his people, leaving no survivors, and then they occupied his land.
Joshua 12:2-6
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One was Sihon, the Amorite king who ruled at Heshbon. His kingdom included half of Gilead: from Aroer (on the edge of the Arnon Valley) and from the city in the middle of that valley, as far as the Jabbok River, the border of Ammon;
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it included the Jordan Valley from Lake Galilee south to Beth Jeshimoth (east of the Dead Sea) and on toward the foot of Mount Pisgah.
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They also defeated King Og of Bashan, who was one of the last of the Rephaim; he ruled at Ashtaroth and Edrei.
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His kingdom included Mount Hermon, Salecah, and all of Bashan as far as the boundaries of Geshur and Maacah, as well as half of Gilead, as far as the territory of King Sihon of Heshbon.
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These two kings were defeated by Moses and the people of Israel. Moses, the LORD's servant, gave their land to the tribes of Reuben and Gad and to half the tribe of Manasseh, to be their possession.
Joshua 13:10-12
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It went as far as the border of Ammon and included all the cities that had been ruled by the Amorite king Sihon, who had ruled at Heshbon.
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It included Gilead, the regions of Geshur and Maacah, all of Mount Hermon, and all of Bashan as far as Salecah.
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It included the kingdom of Og, the last of the Rephaim, who had ruled at Ashtaroth and Edrei. Moses had defeated these people and driven them out.
Nehemiah 9:22
"You let them conquer nations and kingdoms, lands that bordered their own. They conquered the land of Heshbon, where Sihon ruled, and the land of Bashan, where Og was king.
Psalm 135:11
Sihon, king of the Amorites, Og, king of Bashan, and all the kings in Canaan.
Psalm 136:19
Sihon, king of the Amorites; his love is eternal;
Psalm 136:20
and Og, king of Bashan; his love is eternal.