Discovery BoxNumbers 21:21 
ContextThe Victory over Sihon and Og
21:21 1 Then Israel sent messengers to King Sihon of the Amorites, saying, 2
Numbers 21:32-33
Context21:32 Moses sent spies to reconnoiter 3 Jaazer, and they captured its villages 4 and dispossessed the Amorites who were there.
21:33 Then they turned and went up by the road to Bashan. And King Og of Bashan and all his forces 5 marched out against them to do battle at Edrei.
Numbers 21:35
Context21:35 So they defeated Og, 6 his sons, and all his people, until there were no survivors, 7 and they possessed his land.
1 sn For this section, see further J. R. Bartlett, “Sihon and Og of the Amorites,” VT 20 (1970): 257-77, and “The Moabites and the Edomites,” Peoples of Old Testament Times, 229-58; S. H. Horn, “The Excavations at Tell Hesban, 1973,” ADAJ 18 (1973): 87-88.
2 tc Smr and the LXX have “words of peace.”
3 tn Heb “Moses sent to spy out.”
4 tn Heb “daughters.”
5 tn Heb “people.”
6 tn Heb “him”; the referent (Og) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
7 tn Heb “no remnant.”
