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Josh. 12:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Sihona king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and from the middle of the river, and from half Gilead, even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;

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Deut. 2:33,36• ³³But Jehovah our God gave him up before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and his whole people.
³⁶From Aroer, which is on the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the ravine even to Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us: Jehovah our God delivered all before us. (Deut. 2:33,36)

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Deut. 3:6,16‑17• ⁶And we utterly destroyed them, as we had done to Sihon the king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every city, men, women and little ones.
¹⁶And to the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even to the river Arnon, the middle of the ravine and its border, as far as the river Jabbok, the border of the children of Ammon;
¹⁷the plain also, and the Jordan, and its border from Chinnereth as far as the sea of the plain, the salt sea, under the slopes of Pisgah eastward. (Deut. 3:6,16‑17)

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Sihon.

Num. 21:23‑30• ²³But Sihon would not suffer Israel to go through his border; and Sihon gathered all his people, and went out against Israel into the wilderness, and came to Jahaz, and fought against Israel.
²⁴And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, even unto the children of Ammon; for the border of the children of Ammon was strong.
²⁵And Israel took all these cities, and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, at Heshbon, and in all its dependent villages.
²⁶For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites; and he had fought against the former king of Moab, and had taken all his land out of his hand, even unto the Arnon.
²⁷Therefore the poets say, Come to Heshbon; let the city of Sihon be built and established.
²⁸For there went forth fire from Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon; It consumed Ar of Moab, the lords of the high places of the Arnon.
²⁹Woe to thee, Moab! thou art undone, people of Chemosh: He gave his sons that had escaped, and his daughters into captivity to Sihon the king of the Amorites.
³⁰And we have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even unto Dibon; and we have laid them waste even unto Nophah, which reacheth unto Medeba. (Num. 21:23‑30)

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Deut. 2:24‑37• ²⁴Rise up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon. Behold, I have given into thy hand Sihon the king of Heshbon, the Amorite, and his land: begin, take possession, and engage with him in battle.
²⁵This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the peoples under the whole heaven; who will hear report of thee, and will tremble, and quake because of thee.
²⁶And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon the king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,
²⁷Let me pass through thy land: by the highway alone will I go; I will neither turn to the right hand nor to the left.
²⁸Thou shalt sell me food for money that I may eat; and thou shalt give me water for money that I may drink; I will only pass through on my feet,
²⁹--as the children of Esau who dwell in Seir, and the Moabites who dwell in Ar, did to me,--until I shall pass over the Jordan into the land which Jehovah our God giveth us.
³⁰But Sihon the king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for Jehovah thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obdurate, that he might give him into thy hand, as it is this day.
³¹And Jehovah said to me, Behold, I begin to give Sihon and his land before thee: begin, take possession, that thou mayest possess his land.
³²And Sihon came out against us for battle, he and all his people, to Jahaz.
³³But Jehovah our God gave him up before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and his whole people.
³⁴And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every city, men, and women, and little ones: we let none escape.
³⁵Only the cattle we took as booty for ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we took.
³⁶From Aroer, which is on the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the ravine even to Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us: Jehovah our God delivered all before us.
³⁷Only thou didst not approach the land of the children of Ammon, the whole border of the river Jabbok, nor the cities of the mountain, nor to whatsoever Jehovah our God had forbidden us. (Deut. 2:24‑37)

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Deut. 3:6‑17• ⁶And we utterly destroyed them, as we had done to Sihon the king of Heshbon, utterly destroying every city, men, women and little ones.
⁷But all the cattle and the spoil of the cities we took as booty for ourselves.
⁸And we took at that time the land out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites, that were on this side the Jordan, from the river Arnon to mount Hermon
⁹(the Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir):
¹⁰all the cities of the plateau, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, as far as Salchah and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
¹¹For only Og the king of Bashan remained of the residue of giants: behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? its length was nine cubits, and its breadth four cubits, after the cubit of a man.
¹²And this land we took in possession at that time. From Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, and the half of mount Gilead, and its cities, I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites;
¹³and the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to half the tribe of Manasseh. (The whole region of Argob, even all Bashan, is called a land of giants.
¹⁴Jair the son of Manasseh took the whole region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites, and called Bashan after his own name, Havoth-Jair, to this day.)
¹⁵And I gave Gilead to Machir.
¹⁶And to the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even to the river Arnon, the middle of the ravine and its border, as far as the river Jabbok, the border of the children of Ammon;
¹⁷the plain also, and the Jordan, and its border from Chinnereth as far as the sea of the plain, the salt sea, under the slopes of Pisgah eastward. (Deut. 3:6‑17)

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Neh. 9:22• ²²And thou gavest them kingdoms and peoples, and didst divide them by countries; and they possessed the land of Sihon, as well the land of the king of Heshbon, as the land of Og king of Bashan. (Neh. 9:22)

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Psa. 135:11• ¹¹Sihon king of the Amorites, and Og king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan; (Psa. 135:11)

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Psa. 136:19‑20• ¹⁹Sihon king of the Amorites, for his loving-kindness endureth for ever,
²⁰And Og king of Bashan, for his loving-kindness endureth for ever; (Psa. 136:19‑20)

Jabbok.

Gen. 32:22• ²²And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two maidservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford of the Jabbok; (Gen. 32:22)

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Judg. 11:13,22• ¹³And the king of the children of Ammon said to the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land, when they came up out of Egypt, from the Arnon even unto the Jabbok and unto the Jordan; and now restore it peaceably.
²²And they possessed all the borders of the Amorites, from the Arnon unto the Jabbok, and from the wilderness unto the Jordan. (Judg. 11:13,22)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Sihon the king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is upon the bank of the riverd Arnon, and from the middle of the ravined, and over half Gilead, as far as the riverd Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;

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So ch. 13.9,16. see Note, Deut. 2.36.