Sihon king of the Amorites, Og king of Bashan, and all the kings of Canaan.
Parallel translations
- WEB Sihon king of the Amorites, Og king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan,
- KJV Sihon king of the Amorites, and Og king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan:
- NKJV Sihon king of the Amorites, Og king of Bashan, And all the kingdoms of Canaan—
- NASB Sihon, king of the Amorites, Og, king of Bashan, And all the kingdoms of Canaan;
- NLT Sihon king of the Amorites, Og king of Bashan, and all the kings of Canaan.
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Quick answer
Sihon, Og, and all the kingdoms of Canaan fell before Yahweh, naming specific victories of the conquest.
Overview
By naming Sihon, Og, and the Canaanite kingdoms, the psalmist roots Israel's praise in concrete historical deliverance rather than vague memory. These defeated kings were proof that God keeps His covenant promises to give His people their inheritance. Such faithfulness assures believers that the God who fulfilled His word to Israel will fulfill every promise in Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Josh 12:7–24And these are the kings of the land that Joshua and the Israelites conquered beyond the Jordan to the west, from Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir (according to the allotments to the tribes of Israel, Joshua gave them as an inheritance
- Neh 9:22You gave them kingdoms and peoples and allotted to them every corner of the land. So they took the land of Sihon king of Heshbon and of Og king of Bashan.
- Deut 29:7When you reached this place, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out against us in battle, but we defeated them.
- Num 21:21–35Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,
- Deut 2:30But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass through, for the LORD your God had made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate, that He might deliver him into your hand, as is the case this day.
- Josh 10:1–12Now Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had captured Ai and devoted it to destruction—doing to Ai and its king as he had done to Jericho and its king—and that the people of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were living near them.
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