Deuteronomy 1:20

1:20 Then I said to you, “You have come to the Amorite hill country which the Lord our God is about to give ¹  us.

Deuteronomy 1:4

1:4 This took place after the defeat ²  of King Sihon ³  of the Amorites, whose capital was ⁴  in Heshbon, ⁵  and King Og of Bashan, whose capital was ⁶  in Ashtaroth, ⁷  specifically in Edrei. ⁸ 

Deuteronomy 1:27

1:27 You complained among yourselves privately ⁹  and said, “Because the Lord hates us he brought us from Egypt to deliver us over to the Amorites so they could destroy us!

Deuteronomy 1:44

1:44 The Amorite inhabitants of that area ¹⁰  confronted ¹¹  you and chased you like a swarm of bees, striking you down from Seir as far as Hormah. ¹² 

Deuteronomy 3:8

3:8 So at that time we took the land of the two Amorite kings in the Transjordan from Wadi Arnon to Mount Hermon ¹³ 

Deuteronomy 4:47

4:47 They possessed his land and that of King Og of Bashan – both of whom were Amorite kings in the Transjordan, to the east.

Deuteronomy 31:4

31:4 The Lord will do to them just what he did to Sihon and Og, the Amorite kings, and to their land, which he destroyed.

Deuteronomy 1:7

1:7 Get up now, ¹⁴  resume your journey, heading for ¹⁵  the Amorite hill country, to all its areas ¹⁶  including the arid country, ¹⁷  the highlands, the Shephelah, ¹⁸  the Negev, ¹⁹  and the coastal plain – all of Canaan and Lebanon as far as the Great River, that is, the Euphrates.

Deuteronomy 1:19

1:19 Then we left Horeb and passed through all that immense, forbidding wilderness that you saw on the way to the Amorite hill country as the Lord our God had commanded us to do, finally arriving at Kadesh Barnea.

Deuteronomy 2:24

2:24 Get up, make your way across Wadi Arnon. Look! I have already delivered over to you Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, ²⁰  and his land. Go ahead! Take it! Engage him in war!

Deuteronomy 3:2

3:2 The Lord, however, said to me, “Don’t be afraid of him because I have already given him, his whole army, ²¹  and his land to you. You will do to him exactly what you did to King Sihon of the Amorites who lived in Heshbon.”

Deuteronomy 4:46

4:46 in the Transjordan, in the valley opposite Beth Peor, in the land of King Sihon of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon. (It is he whom Moses and the Israelites attacked after they came out of Egypt.

[1:20]  ¹ tn The Hebrew participle has an imminent future sense here, although many English versions treat it as a present tense (“is giving us,” NAB, NIV, NRSV) or a predictive future (“will give us,” NCV).

[1:4]  ² tn Heb “when he struck [or “smote”].”

[1:4]  ³ sn See Deut 2:26–3:22.

[1:4]  ⁴ tn Heb “who lived.”

[1:4]  ⁵ sn Heshbon is probably modern Tell Hesban, about 7.5 mi (12 km) south southwest of Amman, Jordan.

[1:4]  ⁶ tn Heb “who lived.”

[1:4]  ⁷ sn Ashtaroth is probably Tell àAshtarah, about 22 mi (35 km) due east of the Sea of Galilee.

[1:4]  ⁸ sn Edrei is probably modern Deràa, 60 mi (95 km) south of Damascus (see Num 21:33; Josh 12:4; 13:12, 31).

[1:27]  ³ tn Heb “in your tents,” that is, privately.

[1:44]  ⁴ tn Heb “in that hill country,” repeating the end of v. 43.

[1:44]  ⁵ tn Heb “came out to meet.”

[1:44]  ⁶ sn Hormah is probably Khirbet el-Meshash, 5.5 mi (9 km) west of Arad and 7.5 mi (12 km) SE of Beer Sheba. Its name is a derivative of the verb חָרָם (kharam, “to ban; to exterminate”). See Num 21:3.

[3:8]  ⁵ sn Mount Hermon. This is the famous peak at the southern end of the Anti-Lebanon mountain range known today as Jebel es-Sheik.

[1:7]  ⁶ tn Heb “turn”; NAB “Leave here”; NIV, TEV “Break camp.”

[1:7]  ⁷ tn Heb “go (to).”

[1:7]  ⁸ tn Heb “its dwelling places.”

[1:7]  ⁹ tn Heb “the Arabah” (so ASV, NAB, NIV, NRSV).

[1:7]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “lowlands” (so TEV) or “steppes”; NIV, CEV, NLT “the western foothills.”

[1:7]  ¹¹ sn The Hebrew term Negev means literally “desert” or “south” (so KJV, ASV). It refers to the area south of Beer Sheba and generally west of the Arabah Valley between the Dead Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba.

[2:24]  ⁷ sn Heshbon is the name of a prominent site (now Tell Hesba„n, about 7.5 mi [12 km] south southwest of Amman, Jordan). Sihon made it his capital after having driven Moab from the area and forced them south to the Arnon (Num 21:26-30). Heshbon is also mentioned in Deut 1:4.

[3:2]  ⁸ tn Heb “people.”