Bible Verses About Journey of Israel Through The Desert

But Sichon would not allow Isra'el to pass through his territory. Instead, Sichon mustered all his people and went out into the desert to fight Isra'el. On reaching Yachatz, he fought Isra'el.

Isra'el defeated him by force of arms and took control of his land from the Arnon to the Yabok River, but only as far as the people of 'Amon, because the territory of the people of 'Amon was well defended.

Isra'el took all these cities - Isra'el lived in all the cities of the Emori, in Heshbon and all its surrounding towns.

Heshbon was the city of Sichon, the king of the Emori, who had fought against the former king of Mo'av and conquered all his land up to the Arnon.

This is why the storytellers say, "Come to Heshbon! Let it be rebuilt! Let Sichon's city be restored!

"For fire burst out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sichon. It consumed 'Ar of Mo'av, the lords of Arnon's high places.

"Woe to you, Mo'av! You are destroyed, people of K'mosh! He let his sons be fugitives and his daughters captives of Sichon, king of the Emori.

"We shot them down; Heshbon is destroyed, all the way to Divon. We even laid waste to Nofach, which extends as far as Meidva."

Thus Isra'el lived in the land of the Emori.

Moshe sent men to reconnoiter Ya'zer; they captured its towns and drove out the Emori who were there.

Then they turned and went up along the road to Bashan; and 'Og, the king of Bashan, marched out against them, he with all his people, to fight at Edre'i.

ADONAI said to Moshe, "Don't be afraid of him, for I have handed him over to you with all his people and his land. You will treat him just as you did Sichon, king of the Emori, who lived at Heshbon."

So they struck him down, with his sons and all his people, until there was no one left alive; and then they took control of his land.

God came to Bil'am and said, "Who are these men with you?"

Bil'am said to God, "Balak the son of Tzippor, king of Mo'av, has sent me this message:

'The people who came out of Egypt have spread over the land; now, come and curse them for me; maybe I will be able to fight against them and drive them out.'"

God answered Bil'am, "You are not to go with them; you are not to curse the people, because they are blessed."

Bil'am got up in the morning and said to the princes of Balak, "Return to your own land, because ADONAI refuses to give me permission to go with you."

The princes of Mo'av got up, returned to Balak and said, "Bil'am refuses to come with us."

Balak again sent princes, more of them and of higher status than the first group.

They went to Bil'am and said to him, "Here is what Balak the son of Tzippor says: 'Please don't let anything keep you from coming to me.

I will reward you very well, and whatever you say to me I will do. So please come, and curse this people for me.'"

Bil'am answered the servants of Balak, "Even if Balak were to give me his palace filled with silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of ADONAI my God to do anything, great or small.

Now, please, you too, stay here tonight; so that I may find out what else ADONAI will say to me."

God came to Bil'am during the night and said to him, "If the men have come to summon you, get up and go with them; but do only what I tell you."