He will not look on the streams, ¹  the rivers, which are the torrents ²  of honey and butter. ³ 

and throw ¹  your gold ²  in the dust – your gold ³  of Ophir among the rocks in the ravines –

The waves ¹  of death engulfed me, the currents ²  of chaos ³  overwhelmed me. ⁴ 

They are filled with food from your house, and you allow them to drink from the river of your delicacies.

You broke open the spring and the stream; ¹  you dried up perpetually flowing rivers. ² 

Do to them as you did to Midian ¹  – as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River! ² 

From the stream along the road he drinks; then he lifts up his head. ¹ 

The water would have overpowered us; the current ¹  would have overwhelmed ²  us. ³ 

King Sihon of the Amorites who lived ¹  in Heshbon and ruled from Aroer (on the edge of the Arnon Valley) – including the city in the middle of the valley ²  and half of Gilead – 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, ¹  but the border of Manasseh was north of the valley and ended at the sea.

When Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and discovered a well with fresh flowing ¹  water there,

He took them and sent them across the stream along with all his possessions. ¹ 

This is why it is said in the Book of the Wars of the Lord, “Waheb in Suphah ¹  and the wadis, the Arnon

and the slope of the valleys ¹  that extends to the dwelling of Ar, ²  and falls off at the border of Moab.”

They are like ¹  valleys ²  stretched forth, like gardens by the river’s side, like aloes ³  that the Lord has planted, and like cedar trees beside the waters.

They left and went up to the hill country, coming to the Eshcol Valley, ¹  which they scouted out.

Their territory extended ¹  from Aroer at the edge of the Arnon valley as far as Mount Siyon ²  – that is, Hermon –

From there they traveled to Gudgodah, ¹  and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, ²  a place of flowing streams.

After this Samson fell in love with a woman named Delilah, who lived in the Sorek Valley.

“Leave here and travel eastward. Hide out in the Kerith Valley near the Jordan.