Deuteronomy (The Speeches of Moses) - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 173

DEUTERONOMY.

Sair, who expelled the Khorites formerly, resided in the fortresses until the p0we1·· defeated them, and they reside after them.) and drove them out, and dwell in their place until this day. `The Avites also ful Kaphtorites came from Kaphtorland

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2... Ig 26 over t0·day the boundaries of Moab at Ar. But when you approach the sous of Amon, neither distress nor hurt them, tor I will not give the country of the sons of Amon to you to possess, for I have given_it to the sons of Lot as a possession. Rise! march! and cross the River

Arnoul See! I have given you Sihon, King of Heshbon, the Amorite, and his country to break, assail, and defeat it in war! I have broken him this4da.y,—-—putting the dread and fear of you upon the face of the nations, under every sky, who may hear the reports about you. They tremble and faint before you |’ Then I‘ sent ambassadors from

the desert of the East to Sihou, King of Heshbon with proposals of peace, and said; ‘ I wish to pass across your country

by the king’s highway, I will not march many days, or deviate. You shall sell food for money, and I will eat it; and pay money for the water you give and I drink it. I only wish to pass overon my feet. _ Do to me as the sons of Esau did who dwell in Sair,_and the Moabites who inhabit Ar, until I have crossed the jordan, to the land which our EVER-LIVING Gob has given us. But Sihon, King of Heshbon was

not willing you should cross over him, for your Evna—r.1vmG Gon had stupefied his mind, and emboldened his heart, that by it He might give him into your hand, as He has now done. The Evan-uvxno Gon also said; See! I have begun to give up Sihon

and his country before you ; seize it l take his land for a possession I ’ 1 Vv. zo to end of 23 are a note of an ancient

¤ ~ editor pfobably Ezra, not part of the original f text ooses.->—F. F. 20 21 22 (This also was considered a country

of the Rephaim, because the Rephaim resided there formerly, but the Amorites called them Yim-yimim. They were a great and numerous people, like the Anakim, but the Ev1=;r<-uvmc destroyed them before those,_who drove them out, and inhabited in their place; as He did for the sons of Esau w 0 occupy Mount Then Sihon advanced to meet us,

he and all his force to fight at jahaz. But our Evan-uvrne Gon delivered him to us; and struck him and his son and all his forces; and at that time we captured all his towns, and devoted all his cities, nor allowed the men, women or children to escape. Beside the cattle we seized for our- selves, and the plunder of the cities which we captured; from Aroar on the banks of the Arnon, and the towns in the valley. and as far as Gilad—there was not a city that was too strong for us,-·—-our Even-LIVING Gon delivered the whole to our approach! The whole extent of the country of the Amrnonites, all along the vale of jabbok, with the towns of the Highlands, and allthatour Evzm Lxvmo Gob commanded. Then we turned and went up to- ds Bashanand Okin of

war, g, Bashan advanced to meet us with all his forces, to fight at Adarai. Then the EvER·L1v1NG said to me, ‘Fear ,him._ not, for I have given

him into your power, with all his Sorces, and his country; and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon, king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbonk So our Evan-Lxvmo Gon also

subjected to us Og, king of Bashan and all hisforces, until not a rem- nant remained to him. We also cap- tured all his towns, in the same campaign ;··e·there, was not a city we did not take,-—from the sixty towns in the district of Argob, to the capital of Og in Bashan.—-··A1l which towns were fortified with high walls, gates and bars,—-beside a great many towns of the Perizites. We devoted them as we did to Sihon, king of Heshbon;·-we devoted every city, men, women and children; and all the cattle, and plunder of those towns we seized for ourselves. We thus took, in the same campaign, their country from the possession of the two kings of the Amorites which are this side of the jordan, extending from the vale of Amon to the Hill of Hermon.-I All the towns of the Uplands, and all Gilad, and all I V. g. The parenthesis _is_the goto of 33 34 35 37 IO an

ancient commentator, probably Ezrafs, not part of the original text.e—F F. (The Zidonians call Hermon, Shlrion, 9 and the Amorites call it Shenir.) 1*72