Bible Verses About Journey of Israel Through The Desert

The Lord said to me: Say to them: Go not up, and fight not, for I am not with you: lest you fall before your enemies.

I spoke, and you hearkened not: but resisting the commandment of the Lord, and swelling with pride, you went up into the mountain.

And the Amorrhite that dwelt in the mountains coming out, and meeting you, chased you, as bees do: and made slaughter of you from Seir as far as Horma.

You have compassed this mountain long enough: go toward the north:

And command thou the people, saying: You shall pass by the borders of your brethren the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, and they will be afraid of you.

Take ye then good heed that you stir not against them. For I will not give you of their land so much as the step of one foot can tread upon, because I have given mount Seir to Esau, for a possession.

You shall buy meats of them for money and shall eat: you shall draw waters for money, and shall drink.

So I sent messengers from the wilderness of Cademoth to Sehon the king of Hesebon with peaceable words, saying:

We will pass through thy land, we will go along by the highway: we will not turn aside neither to the right hand nor to the left.

Sell us meat for money, that we may eat: give us water for money and so we will drink. We only ask that thou wilt let us pass through,

As the children of Esau have done, that dwell in Seir, and the Moabites, that abide in Ar: until we come to the Jordan, and pass to the land which the Lord our God will give us.

And Sehon the king of Hesebon would not let us pass: because the Lord thy God had hardened his spirit, and fixed his heart, that he might be delivered into thy hands, as now thou seest.

And Sehon came out to meet us with all his people to fight at Jasa.

And the Lord our God delivered him to us: and we slew him with his sons and all his people.

And we took all his cities at that time, killing the inhabitants of them, men and women and children. We left nothing of them:

Except the cattle which came to the share of them that took them: and the spoils of the cities, which we took:

From Aroer, which is upon the bank of the torrent Arnon, a town that is situate in a valley, as far as Galaad. There was not a village or city, that escaped our hands: the Lord our God delivered all unto us:

Then we turned and went by the way of Basan: and Og the king of Basan came out to meet us with his people to fight in Edrai.

And the Lord said to me: Fear him not: because he is delivered into thy hand, with all his people and his land: and thou shalt do to him as thou hast done to Sehon king of the Amorrhites, that dwelt in Hesebon.

So the Lord our God delivered into our hands, Og also, the king of Basan, and all his people: and we utterly destroyed them,

Wasting all his cities at one time, there was not a town that escaped us: sixty cities, all the country of Argob the kingdom of Og in Basan.

All the cities were fenced with very high walls, and with gates and bars, besides innumerable towns that had no walls.

And we utterly destroyed them, as we had done to Sehon the king of Hesebon, destroying every city, men and women and children:

But the cattle and the spoils of the cities we took for our prey.

And we took at that time the land out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorrhites, that were beyond the Jordan: from the torrent Arnon unto the mount Hermon,