Bilangan 21:21

The Victory over Sihon and Og

21:21 ¹ Then Israel sent messengers to King Sihon of the Amorites, saying, ² 

Bilangan 21:32-33

21:32 Moses sent spies to reconnoiter ³  Jaazer, and they captured its villages ⁴  and dispossessed the Amorites who were there.

21:33 Then they turned and went up by the road to Bashan. And King Og of Bashan and all his forces ⁵  marched out against them to do battle at Edrei.

Bilangan 21:35

21:35 So they defeated Og, ⁶  his sons, and all his people, until there were no survivors, ⁷  and they possessed his land.

[21:21]  ¹ sn For this section, see further J. R. Bartlett, “Sihon and Og of the Amorites,” VT 20 (1970): 257-77, and “The Moabites and the Edomites,” Peoples of Old Testament Times, 229-58; S. H. Horn, “The Excavations at Tell Hesban, 1973,” ADAJ 18 (1973): 87-88.

[21:21]  ² tc Smr and the LXX have “words of peace.”

[21:32]  ³ tn Heb “Moses sent to spy out.”

[21:32]  ⁴ tn Heb “daughters.”

[21:33]  ⁵ tn Heb “people.”

[21:35]  ⁶ tn Heb “him”; the referent (Og) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[21:35]  ⁷ tn Heb “no remnant.”