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29     How terrible for you, O Moab!
        You are destroyed, O people of Chemosh!
    Chemosh has made the Amorite, Sihon,
        set your sons to rout
        and take your daughters into slavery!
30     But we destroyed them, from Heshbon to Dibon,
        and ravaged them to Nophah, even to Medeba.[a]

31 So it was that Israel then took this land from the Amorites and settled there.

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Footnotes

  1. 21:30 Meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.

29 Woe to you, Moab!(A)
    You are destroyed, people of Chemosh!(B)
He has given up his sons as fugitives(C)
    and his daughters as captives(D)
    to Sihon king of the Amorites.

30 “But we have overthrown them;
    Heshbon’s dominion has been destroyed all the way to Dibon.(E)
We have demolished them as far as Nophah,
    which extends to Medeba.(F)

31 So Israel settled in the land of the Amorites.(G)

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