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24 But Israel struck him with the edge of the sword, and they took possession of his land from Arnon to Jabbok, until the Ammonites,[a] because the boundary of the Ammonites[b] was strong. 25 Israel took all these cities, and Israel inhabited all the cities of the Amorites,[c] in Heshbon, and in all its environs.[d] 26 Because Heshbon was the city of Sihon king of the Amorites,[e] who had fought against the former king of Moab and taken all his land from his hand until Arnon.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 21:24 Literally “sons of Ammon”
  2. Numbers 21:24 Literally “sons of Ammon”
  3. Numbers 21:25 Hebrew “Amorite”
  4. Numbers 21:25 Hebrew “her daughters;” other modern versions translate “its villages”
  5. Numbers 21:26 Hebrew “Amorite”