fra Biblica1På Herrens befaling vendte vi så tilbage til ørkenen og gik sydpå i retning af Det Røde Hav. I mange år vandrede vi rundt i ørkenområdet vest for Seirs bjerge.2Til sidst sagde Herren:3‚Nu er det tid at vende om og gå nordpå!4Forbered folket på at gå gennem Seirs bjerge, det land, der tilhører edomitterne, som er Esaus efterkommere. Edomitterne vil blive urolige, når I drager gennem deres land, og derfor skal I passe ekstra meget på5ikke at provokere dem til kamp. Jeg har givet dem hele bjerglandet omkring Seir i eje, og jeg har ikke i sinde at give jer så meget som en fodsbred af det.6Betal dem for den mad og det vand, I har brug for undervejs.7I de 40 år, I vandrede omkring i denne store ørken, har jeg jo været med jer og velsignet jer, så I ikke har manglet noget som helst.’8Så gik vi nordpå og satte kursen mod Moabs ubeboede sletter, men vi fulgte ikke vejen, der går fra Eilat og Etzjon-Geber gennem Arabadalen.[1]9Herren advarede os også imod at provokere moabitterne. ‚Kæmp ikke imod dem,’ sagde han. ‚Jeg har givet dem byen Ar, og jeg har ikke i sinde at give jer noget af det land, jeg allerede har givet Lots efterkommere.’10(Før i tiden boede emitterne i Moabs område. De var et stort og stærkt folk, der var i slægt med de anakitiske kæmper.11Både emitterne og anakitterne gik under fællesnavnet refaitter, men moabitterne nøjedes med at kalde dem emitter.12Før i tiden boede horitterne i Seirs bjerge, men de blev drevet bort af edomitterne, Esaus efterkommere, der overtog deres land på samme måde, som israelitterne overtog Kana’ans land, fordi Herren havde bestemt det.)13‚Gå nu over Zered-wadien,’[2] sagde Herren. Det gjorde vi så.14-16Der var altså gået 38 år, fra vi begyndte ørkenvandringen ud fra Kadesh, til vi nåede Zered-wadien. Herren havde sørget for, at alle de mænd, der 38 år tidligere var gamle nok til at bære våben, nu var døde. Herren forhindrede således folket i at komme ind i landet, indtil hele den generation, der gjorde oprør imod ham, var uddød.17Derpå sagde Herren til mig:18‚Gå nu videre nordpå gennem moabitternes land forbi Ar.19Men når I kommer i nærheden af ammonitterne, skal I lade være med at forstyrre eller provokere dem, for jeg har ikke i sinde at give jer noget af det landområde, jeg har givet til Lots efterkommere.’20(Det område tilhørte engang refaitterne, der af ammonitterne blev kaldt zamzummitter.21De var et stort og stærkt folk, men Herren havde givet ammonitterne held til at fordrive dem og overtage deres land.22På lignende måde havde Herren hjulpet Esaus efterkommere til at overtage området omkring Seirs bjerge ved at udrydde horitterne, der boede i landet før dem.23En tilsvarende situation opstod, da kaftoritterne, som kom fra Kreta, angreb og udryddede avvitterne, der indtil da havde boet i området langs Middelhavet helt ned til Gaza.)
Sejren over Kong Sihon af Heshbon
24Herren sagde derefter: ‚Gå nu over Arnonfloden og ind i amoritterkongen Sihon af Heshbons land. I skal føre krig imod ham og tage hans land.25Fra i dag vil jeg gøre samtlige folkeslag i verden bange for jer, så de ryster af skræk, bare de hører om jer!’26Derefter sendte jeg fra Kedemots ørken bud til kong Sihon af Heshbon med tilbud om en fredsaftale.27‚Giv os tilladelse til at rejse igennem dit land,’ bad jeg. ‚Vi lover, at vi ikke vil nedtræde afgrøderne, men holde os til vejen.28Vi lover også, at vi ikke vil stjæle mad undervejs, men betale for alt, hvad vi spiser og drikker, så længe vi er på gennemrejse.29Edomitterne ved Seir gav os tilladelse til at gå gennem deres land. Det samme gjorde moabitterne fra Ar. Vi er på vej mod Jordanfloden for at gå ind i det land, Herren, vores Gud, har givet os.’30Men kong Sihon gav os ikke lov til at rejse gennem landet. Herren havde nemlig gjort ham stædig, og det udløste den krig, der blev årsag til, at landet nu er på vores hænder.31Da sagde Herren til mig: ‚Jeg har taget de første skridt til at give jer kong Sihons land. Nu kan I gå ind og erobre landet og tage det i besiddelse.’32Kong Sihon erklærede os krig og mønstrede sin hær ved Jahatz.33-34Men Herren, vores Gud, hjalp os med at besejre ham, og vi erobrede alle hans byer og udryddede samtlige indbyggere, også kvinder og børn. Intet fik lov at overleve,35-36undtagen kvæget, som vi beholdt sammen med krigsbyttet fra de byer, vi havde erobret. Vi indtog samtlige byer fra Aroer på toppen af Arnonkløften og byen, som ligger nede i dalen, helt til Gilead. Ikke en eneste by kunne holde stand imod os, for Herren, vores Gud, gav dem i vores magt.37Men som Herren havde befalet, holdt vi os fra ammonitterne, som boede øst for Jabbokfloden og i byerne i bjerglandet.
1“Then we turned and journeyed into the wilderness in the direction of the Red Sea, as the Lord told me. And for many days we traveled around Mount Seir. (4.Mos 14,25; 5.Mos 1,40)2Then the Lord said to me,3‘You have been traveling around this mountain country long enough. Turn northward (5.Mos 1,6)4and command the people, “You are about to pass through the territory of your brothers, the people of Esau, who live in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. So be very careful. (1.Mos 32,3; 4.Mos 20,18; 5.Mos 23,7; Amos 1,11; Ob 1,10; Ob 1,12)5Do not contend with them, for I will not give you any of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession. (5.Mos 2,4)6You shall purchase food from them with money, that you may eat, and you shall also buy water from them with money, that you may drink. (5.Mos 2,28)7For the Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He knows your going through this great wilderness. These forty years the Lord your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing.”’ (5.Mos 8,2; Job 23,10)8So we went on, away from our brothers, the people of Esau, who live in Seir, away from the Arabah road from Elath and Ezion-geber. “And we turned and went in the direction of the wilderness of Moab. (4.Mos 33,35; 5.Mos 1,1; Dom 11,18; 1.Kong 9,26; 2.Kong 14,22; 2.Kong 16,6; 2.Krøn 26,2)9And the Lord said to me, ‘Do not harass Moab or contend with them in battle, for I will not give you any of their land for a possession, because I have given Ar to the people of Lot for a possession.’ (1.Mos 19,36; 4.Mos 21,15; 5.Mos 2,18; 5.Mos 2,19; 5.Mos 2,29; Es 15,1)10(The Emim formerly lived there, a people great and many, and tall as the Anakim. (1.Mos 14,5; 4.Mos 13,22; 5.Mos 2,21)11Like the Anakim they are also counted as Rephaim, but the Moabites call them Emim. (1.Mos 14,5)12The Horites also lived in Seir formerly, but the people of Esau dispossessed them and destroyed them from before them and settled in their place, as Israel did to the land of their possession, which the Lord gave to them.) (1.Mos 14,6; 1.Mos 36,20; 4.Mos 21,24; 4.Mos 21,31; 4.Mos 21,35; 5.Mos 2,22)13‘Now rise up and go over the brook Zered.’ So we went over the brook Zered. (4.Mos 21,12)14And the time from our leaving Kadesh-barnea until we crossed the brook Zered was thirty-eight years, until the entire generation, that is, the men of war, had perished from the camp, as the Lord had sworn to them. (4.Mos 14,33; 4.Mos 14,35; 4.Mos 21,12; 4.Mos 26,64; 5.Mos 1,2; 5.Mos 1,19; 5.Mos 1,35; Salm 78,33; Salm 95,11; Salm 106,26; Ez 20,15; 1.Kor 10,5; Heb 3,17)15For indeed the hand of the Lord was against them, to destroy them from the camp, until they had perished.16“So as soon as all the men of war had perished and were dead from among the people,17the Lord said to me,18‘Today you are to cross the border of Moab at Ar.19And when you approach the territory of the people of Ammon, do not harass them or contend with them, for I will not give you any of the land of the people of Ammon as a possession, because I have given it to the sons of Lot for a possession.’ (1.Mos 19,36; 1.Mos 19,38; 5.Mos 2,9)20(It is also counted as a land of Rephaim. Rephaim formerly lived there—but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim— (1.Mos 14,5)21a people great and many, and tall as the Anakim; but the Lord destroyed them before the Ammonites,[1] and they dispossessed them and settled in their place, (5.Mos 2,10)22as he did for the people of Esau, who live in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites before them and they dispossessed them and settled in their place even to this day. (1.Mos 14,6; 1.Mos 36,20)23As for the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorim, who came from Caphtor, destroyed them and settled in their place.) (1.Mos 10,14; 1.Mos 10,19; Josva 13,3; Jer 25,20)24‘Rise up, set out on your journey and go over the Valley of the Arnon. Behold, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land. Begin to take possession, and contend with him in battle. (4.Mos 21,13; 4.Mos 21,27; 4.Mos 21,30; 5.Mos 2,9; Dom 11,18; Dom 11,21)25This day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you on the peoples who are under the whole heaven, who shall hear the report of you and shall tremble and be in anguish because of you.’ (2.Mos 15,14; 5.Mos 11,25; 5.Mos 28,10; Josva 2,9)
The Defeat of King Sihon
26“So I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon the king of Heshbon, with words of peace, saying, (5.Mos 2,24; 5.Mos 20,10; Josva 13,18; 1.Krøn 6,79)27‘Let me pass through your land. I will go only by the road; I will turn aside neither to the right nor to the left. (4.Mos 21,21; Dom 11,19)28You shall sell me food for money, that I may eat, and give me water for money, that I may drink. Only let me pass through on foot, (4.Mos 20,19; 5.Mos 2,6)29as the sons of Esau who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for me, until I go over the Jordan into the land that the Lord our God is giving to us.’ (4.Mos 20,18; 5.Mos 2,5; 5.Mos 2,9; 5.Mos 23,3; Dom 11,17)30But Sihon the king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him, for the Lord your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that he might give him into your hand, as he is this day. (2.Mos 4,21; 4.Mos 21,23; 5.Mos 2,24)31And the Lord said to me, ‘Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land over to you. Begin to take possession, that you may occupy his land.’32Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Jahaz. (4.Mos 21,23)33And the Lord our God gave him over to us, and we defeated him and his sons and all his people. (5.Mos 7,2; 5.Mos 29,7)34And we captured all his cities at that time and devoted to destruction[2] every city, men, women, and children. We left no survivors. (5.Mos 3,6)35Only the livestock we took as spoil for ourselves, with the plunder of the cities that we captured.36From Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and from the city that is in the valley, as far as Gilead, there was not a city too high for us. The Lord our God gave all into our hands. (5.Mos 3,12; 5.Mos 4,48; Josva 12,2; Josva 13,9; Josva 13,16; 2.Sam 24,5; 2.Kong 10,33; Salm 44,3)37Only to the land of the sons of Ammon you did not draw near, that is, to all the banks of the river Jabbok and the cities of the hill country, whatever the Lord our God had forbidden us. (1.Mos 32,22; 4.Mos 21,24; 5.Mos 3,16; Josva 12,2; Dom 11,22)