1 26 "Yet you would not go up, but rebelled against the command of Yahweh your God; 1 27 and you murmured in your tents, and said, 'Because Yahweh hated us he has brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to give us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us. 1 28 Whither are we going up? Our brethren have made our hearts melt, saying, "The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there." ' 1 29 Then I said to you, 'Do not be in dread or afraid of them. 1 30 Yahweh your God who goes before you will himself fight for you, just as he did for you in Egypt before your eyes, 1 31 and in the wilderness, where you have seen how Yahweh your God bore you, as a man bears his son, in all the way that you went until you came to this place.' 1 32 Yet in spite of this word you did not believe Yahweh your God, 1 33 who went before you in the way to seek you out a place to pitch your tents, in fire by night, to show you by what way you should go, and in the cloud by day. - Israel punished. Dt.1.34-45- Nu.14.20-45 | KNSB Contents | notes
1 34 "And Yahweh heard your words, and was angered, and he swore, 1 35 'Not one of these men of this evil generation shall see the good land which I swore to give to your fathers, 1 36 except Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him and to his children I will give the land upon which he has trodden, because he has wholly followed Yahweh! 1 37 Yahweh was angry with me also on your account, and said, 'You also shall not go in there; 1 38 Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall enter; encourage him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it. 1 39 Moreover your little ones, who you said would become a prey, and your children, who this day have no knowledge of good or evil, shall go in there, and to them I will give it, and they shall possess it. 1 40 But as for you, turn, and journey into the wilderness in the direction of the Red Sea.'
1 41 "Then you answered me, 'We have sinned against Yahweh; we will go up and fight, just as Yahweh our God commanded us.' And every man of you girded on his weapons of war, and thought it easy to go up into the hill country. 1 42 And Yahweh said to me, 'Say to them, Do not go up or fight, for I am not in the midst of you; lest you be defeated before your enemies.' 1 43 So I spoke to you, and you would not hearken; but you rebelled against the command of Yahweh, and were presumptuous and went up into the hill country. 1 44 Then the Amorites who lived in that hill country came out against you and chased you as bees do and beat you down in Seir as far as Hormah. 1 45 And you returned and wept before Yahweh; but Yahweh did not hearken to your voice or give ear to you. - The years in the wilderness. Dt.1.46-2.25
1 46 So you remained at Kadesh many days, the days that you remained there.
2 1 "Then we turned, and journeyed into the wilderness in the direction of the Red Sea, as Yahweh told me; and for many days we went about Mount Seir. 2 2 Then Yahweh said to me, 2 3 'You have been going about this mountain country long enough; turn northward. 2 4 And command the people, You are about to pass through the territory of your brethren the sons of Esau, who live in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. So take good heed; 2 5 do not contend with them; for I will not give you any of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession. 2 6 You shall purchase food from them for money, that you may eat; and you shall also buy water of them for money, that you may drink. 2 7 For Yahweh your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands; he knows your going through this great wilderness; these forty years Yahweh your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing.' 2 8 So we went on, away from our brethren the sons of Esau who live in Seir, away from the Arabah road from Elath and Ezion-geber.
2 16 "So when all the men of war had perished and were dead from among the people, 2 17 Yahweh said to me, 2 18 'This day you are to pass over the boundary of Moab at Ar; 2 19 and when you approach the frontier of the sons of Ammon, do not harass them or contend with them, for I will not give you any of the land of the sons of Ammon as a possession, because I have given it to the sons of Lot for a possession.' 2 20 (That also is known as a land of Rephaim; Rephaim formerly lived there, but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim, 2 21 a people great and many, and tall as the Anakim; but Yahweh destroyed them before them; and they dispossessed them, and settled in their stead; 2 22 as he did for the sons of Esau, who live in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites before them, and they dispossessed them, and settled in their stead even to this day. 2 23 As for the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorim, who came from Caphtor, destroyed them and settled in their stead.) 2 24 'Rise up, take your journey, and go over the valley of the Arnon; behold, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land; begin to take possession, and contend with him in battle. 2 25 This day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you upon the peoples that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear the report of you and shall tremble and be in anguish because of you.' - Victory over the Amorites: Sihon. Dt.2.26-37- Nu.21.21-30 | KNSB Contents | notes
2 26 "So I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon the king of Heshbon, with words of peace, saying, 2 27 'Let me pass through your land; I will go only by the road, I will turn aside neither to the right nor to the left. 2 28 You shall sell me food for money, that I may eat, and give me water for money, that I may drink; only let me pass through on foot, 2 29 as the sons of Esau who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for me, until I go over the Jordan into the land which Yahweh our God gives to us.' 2 30 But Sihon the king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for Yahweh your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that he might give him into your hand, as at this day. 2 31 And Yahweh said to me, 'Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land over to you; begin to take possession, that you may occupy his land.' 2 32 Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Jahaz. 2 33 And Yahweh our God gave him over to us; and we defeated him and his sons and all his people. 2 34 And we captured all his cities at that time and utterly destroyed every city, men, women, and children; we left none remaining; 2 35 only the cattle we took as spoil for ourselves, with the booty of the cities which we captured. 2 36 From Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and from the city that is in the valley, as far as Gilead, there was not a city too high for us; Yahweh our God gave all into our hands. 2 37 Only to the land of the sons of Ammon you did not draw near, that is, to all the banks of the river Jabbok and the cities of the hill country, and wherever Yahweh our God forbade us. - Victory over the Amorites: Og. Dt.3.1-11- Nu.21.31-35 | KNSB Contents | notes
3 1 "Then we turned and went up the way to Bashan; and Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei. 3 2 But Yahweh said to me, 'Do not fear him; for I have given him and all his people and his land into your hand; and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon the king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon.' 3 3 So Yahweh our God gave into our hand Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people; and we smote him until no survivor was left to him. 3 4 And we took all his cities at that time - there was not a city which we did not take from them - sixty cities, the whole region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. 3 5 All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides very many unwalled villages. 3 6 And we utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon the king of Heshbon, destroying every city, men, women, and children. 3 7 But all the cattle and the spoil of the cities we took as our booty. 3 8 So we took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon 3 9 (the Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, while the Amorites call it Senir), 3 10 all the cities of the tableland and all Gilead and all Bashan, as far as Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. 3 11 (For only Og the king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbah of the Ammonites? Nine cubits was its length, and four cubits its breadth, according to the common cubit.)