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"Let me passthrough your land. We will not turn off into field or vineyard; we will not drinkwater from wells. We will go by the king'shighwayuntil* we have passedthrough your border."
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But Sihon would not permitIsrael to passthrough his border. So Sihongatheredall his people and went out againstIsrael in the wilderness, and came to Jahaz and fought against Israel.
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Then Israelstruck him with the edge of the sword, and tookpossession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as the sons of Ammon; for the border of the sons of Ammon was Jazer.
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For Heshbon was the city of Sihon, king of the Amorites, who had fought against the formerking of Moab and had takenall his land out of his hand, as far as the Arnon.
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"Woe to you, O Moab! You are ruined, O people of Chemosh! He has given his sons as fugitives, And his daughters into captivity, To an Amoriteking, Sihon.
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But the LORDsaid to Moses, "Do not fear him, for I have given him into your hand, and all his people and his land; and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon, king of the Amorites, wholived at Heshbon."