Nehemiah 9:22
20 You gave Your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold Your manna from their mouths, and You gave them water for their thirst.
21 For forty years You sustained them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.
You gave them kingdoms and peoples and allotted to them every corner of the land. So they took the land of Sihon king of Heshbon and of Og king of Bashan.
23 You multiplied their descendants like the stars of heaven and brought them to the land You had told their fathers to enter and possess.
24 So their descendants went in and possessed the land; You subdued before them the Canaanites dwelling in the land. You delivered into their hands the kings and peoples of the land, to do with them as they wished.
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- BSB
- You gave them kingdoms and peoples and allotted to them every corner of the land. So they took the land of Sihon king of Heshbon and of Og king of Bashan.
- KJV
- Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and nations, and didst divide them into corners: so they possessed the land of Sihon, and the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.
- WEB
- Moreover you gave them kingdoms and peoples, which you allotted according to their portions. So they possessed the land of Sihon, even the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.
- ASV
- Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and peoples, which thou didst allot after their portions: so they possessed the land of Sihon, even the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.
- DARBY
- And 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.
- BLB
- And You gave to them kingdoms and nations, and You portioned them to the corner. And they took possession of the land of Sihon king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.
- ÅB
- Du gav dem riker og folk, som du skiftet ut til dem på alle kanter; de tok i eie det land som tilhørte Sihon, kongen i Hesbon, og det land som tilhørte Og, kongen i Basan.
- OTB
- Du ga dem riker og folk, tildelte dem til og med de fjerneste grensene. De tok i eie landet til Sihon, kongen av Hesjbon, og landet til Og, kongen av Basan.
- B1930
- Du gav dem riker og folk, som du skiftet ut til dem på alle kanter; de tok i eie det land som tilhørte Sihon, kongen i Hesbon, og det land som tilhørte Og, kongen i Basan.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Numbers 21:21–35
Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,
Read in contextPsalms 105:44
He gave them the lands of the nations, that they might inherit the fruit of others’ labor,
Read in contextJoshua 11:23
So Joshua took the entire land, in keeping with all that the LORD had spoken to Moses. And Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to the allotments to their tribes. Then the land had rest from war.
Read in contextPsalms 78:65
Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a mighty warrior overcome by wine.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 3:1–17
Then we turned and went up the road to Bashan, and Og king of Bashan and his whole army came out to meet us in battle at Edrei.
Read in contextPsalms 135:10–12
He struck down many nations and slaughtered mighty kings:
Read in contextDeuteronomy 2:26–36
So from the Wilderness of Kedemoth I sent messengers with an offer of peace to Sihon king of Heshbon, saying,
Read in contextJoshua 10:11
As they fled before Israel along the descent from Beth-horon to Azekah, the LORD cast down on them large hailstones from the sky, and more of them were killed by the hailstones than by the swords of the Israelites.
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