Bible Cross References
Sihon
Numbers 21:23-30
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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.
24
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.
25
So the people of Israel captured all the Amorite cities, including Heshbon and all the surrounding towns, and settled in them.
26
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.
27
That is why the poets sing, "Come to Heshbon, to King Sihon's city! We want to see it rebuilt and restored.
28
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.
29
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.
30
But now their descendants are destroyed, All the way from Heshbon to Dibon, From Nashim to Nophah, near Medeba."
Deuteronomy 2:24-37
24
"After we had passed through Moab, the LORD told us, 'Now, start out and cross the Arnon River. I am placing in your power Sihon, the Amorite king of Heshbon, along with his land. Attack him, and begin occupying his land.
25
From today on I will make people everywhere afraid of you. Everyone will tremble with fear at the mention of your name.'
26
"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,
29
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.'
30
"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.
31
"Then the LORD said to me, 'Look, I have made King Sihon and his land helpless before you; take his land and occupy it.'
32
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.
34
At the same time we captured and destroyed every town, and put everyone to death, men, women, and children. We left no survivors.
35
We took the livestock and plundered the towns.
36
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.
37
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 3:6-17
6
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.
7
We took the livestock and plundered the towns.
8
"At that time we took from those two Amorite kings the land east of the Jordan River, from the Arnon River to Mount Hermon.
9
(Mount Hermon is called Sirion by the Sidonians, and Senir by the Amorites.)
10
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."
11
(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.)
12
"When we took possession of the land, I assigned to the tribes of Reuben and Gad the territory north of the town of Aroer near the Arnon River and part of the hill country of Gilead, along with its towns.
13
To half the tribe of Manasseh I assigned the rest of Gilead and also all of Bashan, where Og had ruled, that is, the entire Argob region." (Bashan was known as the land of the Rephaim.
14
Jair, from the tribe of Manasseh, took the entire region of Argob, that is, Bashan, as far as the border of Geshur and Maacah. He named the villages after himself, and they are still known as the villages of Jair.)
15
"I assigned Gilead to the clan of Machir of the tribe of Manasseh.
16
And to the tribes of Reuben and Gad I assigned the territory from Gilead to the Arnon River. The middle of the river was their southern boundary, and their northern boundary was the Jabbok River, part of which formed the Ammonite border.
17
On the west their territory extended to the Jordan River, from Lake Galilee in the north down to the Dead Sea in the south and to the foot of Mount Pisgah on the east.
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.
Jabbok
Genesis 32:22
That same night Jacob got up, took his two wives, his two concubines, and his eleven children, and crossed the Jabbok River.
Judges 11:13
The king of Ammon answered Jephthah's messengers, "When the Israelites came out of Egypt, they took away my land from the Arnon River to the Jabbok River and the Jordan River. Now you must give it back peacefully."
Judges 11:22
They occupied all the Amorite territory from the Arnon in the south to the Jabbok in the north and from the desert on the east to the Jordan on the west.