It then crossed to Azmon, extended to the Stream of Egypt,<n id="1" /> and ended at the sea. This was their<n id="2" /> southern border.p>

Ashdod with its surrounding towns and settlements, and Gaza with its surrounding towns and settlements, as far as the Stream of Egypt<n id="1" /> and the border at the Mediterranean Sea.<n id="2" />p>

From Tappuah it went westward to the Valley of Kanah and ended at the sea. This is the land assigned to the tribe of Ephraim<n id="1" /> by its clans.

I will bring Sisera, the general of Jabin&#8217;s army, to you at the Kishon River, along with his chariots and huge army.<n id="1" /> I will hand him over to you.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">So David went, accompanied by his six hundred men. When he came to the Wadi Besor, those who were in the rear stayed there.<n id="1" />

David and four hundred men continued the pursuit, but two hundred men who were too exhausted to cross the Wadi Besor stayed there.p>

If you ever do leave and cross the Kidron Valley, know for sure that you will certainly die! You will be responsible for your own death.&#8221;<n id="1" />

He conquered all the land of Gilead, including the territory of Gad, Reuben, and Manasseh, extending all the way from the Aroer in the Arnon Valley through Gilead to Bashan.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">At that time<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> will shake the tree,<n id="2" /> from the Euphrates River<n id="3" /> to the Stream of Egypt. Then you will be gathered up one by one, O Israelites.<n id="4" />

<p class="poetry">Among the smooth stones of the stream are the idols you love;p> <p class="poetry">they, they are the object of your devotion.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">You pour out liquid offerings to them,p> <p class="poetry">you make an offering.p> <p class="poetry">Because of these things I will seek vengeance.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Look! I am about to bring<n id="1" /> a nation against you, family<n id="2" /> of Israel.&#8221;p> <p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc>, the God who commands armies, is speaking.p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;They will oppress<n id="3" /> you all the way from Lebo-Hamath<n id="4" /> to the Stream of the Arabah.&#8221;<n id="5" />p>

On the first day you must take for yourselves branches from majestic trees<n id="1" /> &#8211; palm branches, branches of leafy trees, and willows of the brook &#8211; and you must rejoice before the <sc>Lordsc> your God for seven days.

When<n id="1" /> they went up to the Eshcol Valley and saw the land, they frustrated the intent of the Israelites so that they did not enter<n id="2" /> the land that the <sc>Lordsc> had given<n id="3" /> them.

Now the length of time it took for us to go from Kadesh Barnea to the crossing of Wadi Zered was thirty-eight years, time for all the military men of that generation to die, just as the <sc>Lordsc> had vowed to them.

<p class="bodytext">Get up, make your way across Wadi Arnon. Look! I have already delivered over to you Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon,<n id="1" /> and his land. Go ahead! Take it! Engage him in war!

From Aroer,<n id="1" /> which is at the edge of Wadi Arnon (it is the city in the wadi),<n id="2" /> all the way to Gilead there was not a town able to resist us &#8211; the <sc>Lordsc> our God gave them all to us.

and bring the heifer down to a wadi with flowing water,<n id="1" /> to a valley that is neither plowed nor sown.<n id="2" /> There at the wadi they are to break the heifer&#8217;s neck.

<p class="bodytext">King Sihon of the Amorites who lived<n id="1" /> in Heshbon and ruled from Aroer (on the edge of the Arnon Valley) &#8211; including the city in the middle of the valley<n id="2" /> and half of Gilead &#8211; all the way to the Jabbok Valley bordering Ammonite territory.

The border then descended southward to the Valley of Kanah. Ephraim was assigned cities there among the cities of Manasseh,<n id="1" /> but the border of Manasseh was north of the valley and ended at the sea.

he<n id="1" /> ordered<n id="2" /> all his chariotry &#8211; nine hundred chariots with iron-rimmed wheels &#8211; and all the troops he had with him to go from Harosheth-Haggoyim to the River Kishon.