Bible Verses About Journey of Israel Through The Desert

But ADONAI said to me, 'Tell them, "Don't go up, and don't fight, because I am not there with you; if you do, your enemies will defeat you."'

So I told you, but you wouldn't listen. Instead, you rebelled against ADONAI's order, took matters into your own hands and went up into the hill-country;

where the Emori living in that hill-country came out against you like bees, defeated you in Se'ir and chased you back all the way to Hormah.

'You have been going around this mountain long enough! Head north,

and give this order to the people: "You are to pass through the territory of your kinsmen the descendants of 'Esav who live in Se'ir. They will be afraid of you, so be very cautious,

and don't get into disputes with them; for I am not going to give you any of their land, no, not even enough for one foot to stand on; inasmuch as I have given Mount Se'ir to 'Esav as his possession.

Pay them money for the food you eat, and pay them money for the water you drink.

"I sent envoys from the K'demot Desert to Sichon king of Heshbon with a peaceable message,

'Let me pass through your land. I will keep to the road, turning neither right nor left.

You will sell me food to eat for money and give me water to drink for money. I only want to pass through.

Do as the people of 'Esav living in Se'ir and the Mo'avim living in 'Ar did with me, until I cross the Yarden into the land ADONAI our God is giving us.'

"But Sichon king of Heshbon would not let us pass through his territory, because ADONAI your God had hardened his spirit and made him stubborn, so that he could hand him over to you, as is the case today.

Then Sichon came out against us, he and all his people, to fight at Yahatz;

and ADONAI our God handed him over to us, so that we defeated him, his sons and all his people.

At that time we captured all his cities and completely destroyed every city - men, women, little ones - we left none of them.

As booty for ourselves we took only the cattle, along with the spoil from the cities we had captured.

From 'Aro'er, on the edge of the Arnon Valley, and from the city in the valley, all the way to Gil'ad, there was not one city too well fortified for us to capture -ADONAI our God gave all of them to us.

"Then we turned and went up the road to Bashan, and 'Og the king of Bashan came out against us with all his people to fight at Edre'i.

ADONAI said to me, 'Don't be afraid of him; for I have handed him, all his people and his territory over to you; you will do to him as you did to Sichon king of the Emori, who lived at Heshbon.'

So ADONAI our God also handed over to us 'Og the king of Bashan with all his people, and we defeated him until he had no one left.

At that time we captured all his cities; there was not one city of theirs that we didn't capture. There were sixty cities, all the region of Argov, the kingdom of 'Og in Bashan;

all of them fortified cities with high walls, gates and bars - in addition to a great number of unwalled towns.

We completely destroyed them, as we did with Sichon king of Heshbon, annihilating every city -men, women and little ones.

But we took all the livestock, along with the spoil from the cities, as booty for ourselves.

"At that time we captured the territory of the two kings of the Emori east of the Yarden between the Arnon Valley and Mount Hermon,"